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Autonomous system

AS12162 DATA-DISTIBUTORS-AS

Unclassified ARIN

IPv4 addresses 256 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Data Distributors

United States · AI-generated

enterprise legacy

One /24, one upstream, and a typo preserved in the AS handle.

What it's used for

  • Corporate connectivity. 256 addresses in a single /24 with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

  • The AS handle reads DATA-DISTIBUTORS-AS, missing the R from DISTRIBUTORS.
  • The holder field beside it spells the company correctly.
  • The block, 146.115.200.0/24, is netname DATADIST-RCN, registered to Data Distributors.
  • First seen in routing data in September 2005.

Interesting

  • Registry handles are effectively immutable in practice. Changing one means every object that references it has to be updated, so a misspelling entered once tends to stay entered, and this one has been misspelt since at least 2005.
  • RCN in the netname is the carrier the block came through, a cable and fibre operator serving the northeastern United States. Two organisations named in six characters, which is efficient and completely opaque unless you already know.
  • 146.115 is early allocation, and a company distributing data was, in that era, likely moving it on tape and disk as much as over any network.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS6079RCN59

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America1

Registry

Allocation record

ARIN · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
ARIN
Handle
AS12162
Registry name
DATA-DISTIBUTORS-AS
Registrant
DATA DISTRIBUTORS
Abuse contact
davesr@datadist.com
Registered
2005-08-29
Last changed
2012-03-02
Allocation
assigned

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
1 authorising AS12162
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
Route objects
1 naming AS12162

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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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

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