Autonomous system
AS12161 DAO
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
dao Consulting
hosting legacy
Six small blocks under five different registrants, announced from one consulting company's AS.
What it's used for
- Hosting and business connectivity. 2,304 addresses in six IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6
/44, and three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Only one block is registered to the AS holder:
199.74.222.0/24, netnameDAO-222. - The others belong to four other names —
MEDWEB(Nexsys Corporation),ANI(Arlington National Industries),OSCOMP(Osborn Consulting and Arlington National Industries) andTAAFFENET(Medical Data Productions). - The IPv6 announcement is
2620:124:1000::/44, a direct assignment.
Interesting
- The reverse DNS is inconsistent in two ways at once. One address answers
host-222-127, a bare label with no domain attached at all, which is not a usable name anywhere. Others alternate capitalisation betweendaoCon.comanddaocon.comon adjacent addresses in the same/24. - Two of those netnames point at medical work — a web platform and a data company — which is the kind of customer that outlives its provider's paperwork. Small blocks assigned in the 1990s keep being announced by whoever inherited the relationship, and the registrant field becomes a list of everyone who was ever involved.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.53.143.63 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, 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 · 2.30K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12161- Registry name
- DAO
- Registrant
- dao Consulting, LLC
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster-arin@daoConsulting.com
- Registered
- 2014-03-04
- Last changed
- 2014-03-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 29% valid · 2 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS12161
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 17 naming AS12161
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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