AS11297 LIPSCOMB

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.