Autonomous system
AS1288 PCH-LOCAL-TRANSIT
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Packet Clearing House (PCH)
research legacy
PCH-LOCAL-TRANSIT, a network of Packet Clearing House, the non-profit that supports the operation of internet exchange points and core DNS infrastructure.
What it's used for
- Supporting critical internet infrastructure: internet exchange points and the domain name system.
Notable
- A non-profit / intergovernmental treaty organization providing operational support to internet exchanges worldwide, not a commercial network.
Interesting
- PCH helps build IXPs globally and operates anycast DNS for hundreds of top-level and country-code domains.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.101 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 2 downstream and 17 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 3.84K addresses IPv6 5 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1288- Registry name
- PCH-LOCAL-TRANSIT
- Registrant
- Packet Clearing House, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@pch.net
- Registered
- 2023-08-09
- Last changed
- 2023-08-09
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 23 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 43 authorising AS1288
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 77 naming AS1288
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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