Autonomous system
AS11296 INDEPENDENT-HEALTH
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Independent Health Association, Inc.
enterprise legacy
INDEPENDENT-HEALTH is the network of Independent Health Association, Inc., a not-for-profit health insurance plan serving western New York. RIS sees a small enterprise footprint: 2 IPv4 prefixes, 1,024 addresses, no IPv6, and 3 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
The insurer's own corporate IT and the public edge of its member and provider portals. There is no ambiguity in the inventory to resolve: both announced prefixes — 204.124.132.0/22 and the more-specific 204.124.133.0/24 carved out of it — are registered to the netname WNYINDEPENTH (org: Independent Health Association, Inc.), which reads as Western New York Independent Health. Holder, registrant and announcer are one organisation. A /22 announced alongside one of its own /24s is routine traffic engineering, letting a single subnet be steered or preferred independently while the covering route stays up.
Notable
Three observed neighbours is the number that classifies this network. An insurer buys transit; it does not sell it. With only a thousand addresses and a handful of upstreams, this is a leaf network at the edge of the routing graph, and nothing about it resembles hosting, transit or an access ISP. The AS exists so that the organisation can multi-home its own address space — the standard reason a mid-size regulated business runs BGP at all, since availability of member-facing systems is a compliance concern as much as an IT one.
Interesting
The reverse DNS sample came back empty, and that is worth saying plainly: it is a sample, not a finding. Four addresses probed out of 1,024 tells you nothing about whether the zone is delegated, and no inference about the network's posture should be built on it. Everything asserted here rests on the registry and the routing, both of which point the same way.
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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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11296- Registry name
- INDEPENDENT-HEALTH
- Registrant
- Independent Health Association, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- netadmin@independenthealth.com
- Registered
- 2011-04-04
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11296
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS11296
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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