Autonomous system
AS11221 WHRONET - WHRO Public Media
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
WHRO Public Media
education legacy
WHRONET is WHRO Public Media, the public television and radio operation serving Hampton Roads, Virginia. WHRO is unusual among public broadcasters: it is owned by a consortium of local public school divisions, the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, and its remit has always been instructional as much as broadcast.
What it's used for
WHRO's own services plus connectivity for the education community it was built to serve. RIS shows 10 announced IPv4 prefixes covering 5,632 addresses, no IPv6, and 3 observed BGP neighbours — a modest, multihomed regional network, far too small and too sparsely peered to be doing transit for anyone at scale.
Notable
The reverse DNS is what makes the dual role visible. Alongside first-party hosts like wwwmail.whro.net and 5.di.whro.net, the sample turns up lana-5.chcs.pvt.k12.va.us — a Virginia K-12 school hostname sitting inside WHRO's 64.5.128.0/20. That is consistent with WHRO's long-standing role as a shared technology and connectivity hub for area school divisions rather than purely a broadcaster.
Interesting
All ten announced prefixes are registered to WHRO-NET, WHRO's own ARIN handle: the covering /20 and every more-specific carved out of it. Self-registered space with first-party rDNS is the clearest available signal of a real operator using its own addresses, and it rules out any question of the block being leased or brokered. The deaggregation into /22s, /23s and /24s on top of the /20 reflects delegation to distinct sites and member institutions.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-06, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 5.38K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11221- Registry name
- WHRONET
- Registrant
- WHRO Public Media
- Abuse contact
- domain-technical@whro.net
- Registered
- 1998-05-21
- Last changed
- 2025-02-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11221
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS11221
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere