Autonomous system
AS12118 WVU
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
West Virginia University
education university research legacy
The campus network of West Virginia University in Morgantown, which also carries space for its health system and for a national radio astronomy site.
What it's used for
- Campus, residential and academic networking. The
WVU-RESNETblock and reverse DNS underresnet.wvu.eduare the student housing network; the rest is general campus space.
Notable
- Two of the six announced prefixes belong to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, registered as
NRAO-GBandNRAO-GB3.GBis Green Bank, the West Virginia site that operates the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world and sits inside the National Radio Quiet Zone. The university is its route to the internet. - Another block is registered to United Hospital Center under the netname
WVUMEDICINE-WV, so the WVU Medicine hospital network rides the same AS as the campus. - 91,000 addresses over six prefixes against three observed neighbours — a self-contained end site, not a network that carries anyone else's traffic by choice.
Interesting
- A university announcing a national observatory's address space is a reminder of how much US research infrastructure is reached through whichever campus happens to be nearest. In Green Bank's case that geography matters twice over, since the Quiet Zone restricts radio transmission for miles around and makes ordinary connectivity options scarce.
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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 91.65K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12118- Registry name
- WVU
- Registrant
- West Virginia University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mail.wvu.edu
- Registered
- 1999-03-29
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- WVU
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12118
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS12118
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 1,783 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