Autonomous system
AS11436 BCES-BCEM-01
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Benton County Emergency Management
government legacy
BCES-BCEM-01 is held by Benton County Emergency Management, the county emergency-services agency for Benton County, Washington, registered at Truman Avenue in Richland in the Tri-Cities. It is a single-prefix public-sector network.
What it's used for
RIS sees exactly one IPv4 prefix, 199.233.108.0/24 — 256 addresses — with no IPv6 and two observed neighbours. The prefix is registered in ARIN to Benton County Emergency Management itself under the network handle BCEMNET, so the space is first-party: the agency that announces it also holds it.
Two neighbours is the whole story of the role. An organisation that wanted transit customers or peering would show dozens to thousands of adjacencies; two means two upstreams, taken so that the county's emergency-services connectivity survives one carrier failing. County emergency-management agencies run 911 dispatch, emergency operations centres and public-alerting systems, and those are precisely the workloads that justify the cost of provider-independent space and a BGP-speaking edge: the address block does not have to change when the upstream does, and the service stays reachable when one link goes down.
Notable
Nothing about the inventory is ambiguous. One /24, self-registered, announced by its holder, two upstreams — the shape of a small government agency's redundant internet edge, not a network operator. The absence of PTRs on the handful of addresses sampled means nothing either way; it is a sample, not a survey.
Interesting
The ARIN record for this AS number carries a 2024 date, so the low number should not be read as evidence of an early-internet network. AS numbers in this range are frequently recycled, and the current holder is what the registry describes.
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 2026-10-18, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11436- Registry name
- BCES-BCEM-01
- Registrant
- Benton County Emergency Management
- Abuse contact
- itsupport@bces.wa.gov
- Registered
- 2024-08-16
- Last changed
- 2024-08-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11436
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS11436
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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