Autonomous system
AS13392 R18ESC
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Region 18 Education Service Center
education government infrastructure
The netname is the organisation's full name with three hyphens in a row where a dash used to be.
What it's used for
- A Texas regional education service centre, providing network service to school districts. 7,424 addresses across five IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- All five blocks carry the same netname,
REGION-18-EDUCATION-SERVICE-CENTER---TEXAS. - The three consecutive hyphens sit where a space, a dash and a space were in the original name.
- Fifteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Registry identifiers allow letters, digits and hyphens, so a name containing a dash surrounded by spaces becomes three hyphens when every disallowed character is replaced one for one. The substitution was mechanical, and it preserved the punctuation of the original in a form nothing else uses.
- Spelling the entire name out rather than abbreviating produces a label at the far end of what the field will hold. Most organisations pick initials; this one kept everything, which makes the record searchable by name and unreadable at a glance.
- Regional service centres exist so that small school districts can share what none of them could afford alone. The five prefixes here are one organisation's allocation, subdivided among the districts it serves rather than among its own sites.
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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 7.42K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13392- Registry name
- R18ESC
- Registrant
- Region 18 Education Service Center
- Abuse contact
- noc@edlink18.net
- Registered
- 2006-10-24
- Last changed
- 2024-06-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS13392
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS13392
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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