Autonomous system
AS12217 UPS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
United Parcel Service (UPS)
enterprise logistics legacy
The corporate network of UPS, the Atlanta-headquartered parcel carrier.
What it's used for
- Internal enterprise networking for a global logistics operation: sorting hubs, package tracking systems, driver handhelds and the corporate estate behind them.
Notable
- 75,000 addresses across 32 prefixes against five observed BGP neighbours. That is an end site, not a service provider — a large private network with a small number of ways in.
- Nearly all of the space is carved out of
153.2.0.0/16, with the remainder in156.134.0.0/16. Both are legacy class B assignments, all registered directly to United Parcel Service. - No IPv6 announced.
Interesting
- A parcel company holding two class Bs is a reminder that logistics was computerised early and at scale. UPS was tracking packages electronically well before the web existed, and the network that grew up around that work needed real address space at a time when getting it only meant asking.
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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 32 prefixes · 75.01K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12217- Registry name
- UPS
- Registrant
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC.
- Abuse contact
- network@ups.com
- Registered
- 1999-04-26
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 93% valid · 53 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 54 authorising AS12217
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 57 of 57 announcements
- Route objects
- 97 naming AS12217
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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