Autonomous system
AS11714 NETWORK NEBRASKA
Education ARIN
Summary
Network Nebraska
education university government legacy
NETWORK NEBRASKA is the state of Nebraska's shared education network, the aggregation point that connects the state's K-12 school districts, educational service units, community colleges, state colleges, the university system and public libraries to each other and to the commodity internet.
What it's used for
RIS sees 32 IPv4 prefixes and about 294,000 addresses, plus two IPv6 blocks (2620:130:5000::/44 and 2606:1c00::/32), against nine observed neighbours. The shape is unusual and it is the shape of an aggregator: a very large address estate carried over a small number of upstream and peering adjacencies. Network Nebraska does not sell transit to the wider internet, so it has few neighbours; it does aggregate a whole state's education sector, so it announces a lot of space.
The registrant list is the proof. Alongside Network Nebraska's own 205.202.0.0/16, 162.127.0.0/16, 204.234.0.0/16 and 72.15.160.0/20, RIS sees prefixes registered to Chadron State College, Lincoln Public Schools (204.137.64.0/18), Western Nebraska Community College and Wayne State College. Those are not unrelated third parties: they are the member institutions on whose behalf the AS announces. This is what a consortium network looks like from the outside, and it is why the multi-registrant pattern must be read against the holder rather than treated as a red flag on its own.
Notable
The sampled reverse DNS closes the loop with names like user-0-5.kearney.k12.ne.us and user5.gi.lib.ne.us — a school district and a public library, both under .ne.us. The space carries end users, but they are students, teachers and library patrons, so this is an education network rather than a consumer ISP despite the eyeball-looking PTRs.
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 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 30 prefixes · 294K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11714- Registry name
- NETWORK NEBRASKA
- Registrant
- Network Nebraska
- Abuse contact
- walter.aude@nebraska.edu
- Registered
- 1998-11-23
- Last changed
- 2017-07-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 71% valid · 24 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 19 authorising AS11714
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 34 of 34 announcements
- Route objects
- 120 naming AS11714
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 2026-10-17. 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