Autonomous system
AS1249 FIVE-COLLEGES-AS - University of Massachusetts - AMHERST
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Five Colleges, Inc.
education research legacy
The shared network (FIVE-COLLEGES-AS) of Five Colleges, Inc., the consortium of Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts.
What it's used for
- Shared campus and inter-campus networking for the member institutions.
Notable
- An academic consortium network, not a commercial ISP. A low AS number reflects an early connection to the research internet.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS1968 | UMASSNET | 248 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 82.43K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1249- Registry name
- FIVE-COLLEGES-AS
- Registrant
- University of Massachusetts - AMHERST
- Abuse contact
- abuse@umass.edu
- Registered
- 1991-04-18
- Last changed
- 2024-11-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS1249
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS1249
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 2026-11-03. 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