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.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 12 |
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
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere