Autonomous system
AS1261 NATINST-AS-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
National Instruments Corporation
enterprise legacy
NATINST-AS-AS is National Instruments Corporation, a test, measurement, and automation equipment maker headquartered in Austin, Texas (now part of Emerson).
What it's used for
- Corporate networking for the company and its facilities.
Notable
- A private corporate address, not commercial hosting.
- Registered in 1991 and paired with the legacy
130.164.0.0/16block, reflecting an early-internet allocation.
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
3 upstream, 0 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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 8 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1261- Registry name
- NATINST-AS-AS
- Registrant
- National Instruments Corporation
- Abuse contact
- nikhil.naidu@ni.com
- Registered
- 1991-06-17
- Last changed
- 2018-11-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS1261
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS1261
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