Autonomous system
AS11297 LIPSCOMB
Education ARIN
Summary
Lipscomb University
education university legacy
LIPSCOMB is the campus network of Lipscomb University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee. RIS sees a single-block campus: 1 IPv4 prefix (74.119.168.0/22, 1,024 addresses), 1 IPv6 prefix (2620:112:d000::/44), and 2 observed neighbours.
What it's used for
Ordinary campus internet: staff and faculty systems, student and classroom networks, and the university's outward-facing services. The reverse DNS makes the shape explicit. Sampled addresses return nat-74-119-168-5.lipscomb.edu and nat-74-119-170-5.lipscomb.edu — first-party names in the university's own .edu zone, and the nat- prefix says these public addresses are NAT egress for a much larger private campus network behind them. That is why a whole university fits behind 1,024 routable addresses: the visible IPv4 space is a translation pool, not a per-host inventory.
Notable
The prefix is registered to LU-MAIN-CAMPUS (org: Lipscomb University) — the netname literally names the campus, and the registrant is the holder. One prefix, one RIR, one org, wearing its own rDNS. There is nothing here to disentangle and no third-party registrant to explain.
Interesting
The IPv6 allocation is the standout: a /44 from 2620::/23, ARIN's direct-assignment range, is vastly more address space than the IPv4 /22 and is announced as a single route. That combination — a NATted IPv4 pool alongside a generous native IPv6 block — is characteristic of US higher-education networks, which got IPv6 early through their regional research-and-education providers. Two observed neighbours fits the same picture: the university reaches the internet through a small number of upstreams rather than peering widely, which is what an institutional edge network looks like.
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 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11297- Registry name
- LIPSCOMB
- Registrant
- Lipscomb University
- Abuse contact
- NetworkAbuse@lipscomb.edu
- Registered
- 2008-12-04
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11297
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS11297
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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