Autonomous system
AS11865 EPE-ASN-BGP-1 - El Paso Electric
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
El Paso Electric
enterprise legacy
EPE-ASN-BGP-1 is El Paso Electric, the regulated electric utility serving El Paso, Texas and southern New Mexico. It is a corporate network for a utility, not a service provider or anything to do with the power grid's control systems being exposed to the internet.
What it's used for
The company's own internet edge. RIS observes two announced prefixes, 204.238.72.0/24 and 198.199.180.0/24 (512 addresses in total), no IPv6, and two observed BGP neighbours. Two /24s and two upstreams is a business multihoming for availability. There is no address volume, and no peer count, that could support customers.
The reverse DNS is first-party and confirms the holder directly. Both sampled addresses in 204.238.72.0/24 resolve under epelectric.com: 204.238.72.5 to 204-238-72-5.epelectric.com and 204.238.72.133 to 204-238-72-133.epelectric.com. Dashed-quad hostnames under the company's own domain are generic per-address PTRs on corporate space, the pattern of a network naming its own block.
ARIN registers 204.238.72.0/24 as EPE-2 and 198.199.180.0/24 as EPE, both to El Paso Electric. Registrant, announcer and rDNS all name the same utility, so the prefix-registrant test clears without qualification.
Notable
Utilities appear in this AS range more than once, and they consistently look like this: a couple of /24s, a couple of upstreams, and self-named rDNS. Nothing observable here distinguishes El Paso Electric's network from any other mid-size enterprise.
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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 2026-11-01, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS11865- Registry name
- EPE-ASN-BGP-1
- Registrant
- El Paso Electric
- Abuse contact
- it_operations@epelectric.com
- Registered
- 2020-09-18
- Last changed
- 2020-09-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11865
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS11865
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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