Autonomous system
AS13465 -Reserved AS-
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Sam Houston Electric Cooperative
infrastructure business enterprise
A single /24 named SHEC-4, which implies three earlier blocks that are not here.
What it's used for
- A rural electric cooperative's network. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix,
68.67.117.0/24, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The block is netname
SHEC-4, registered to the cooperative under its full name. - The AS handle recorded in inventory reads
-Reserved AS-while the registry names a holder. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A trailing
4in a netname is a sequence number the registry assigns when an organisation already has records with that name. Three earlier ones exist somewhere in the registry; none of them are announced from here, so they were returned, are used privately, or route through somebody else. - Three upstreams behind one /24 is more redundancy than the size suggests, and it fits the customer. An electric utility's outage management and metering systems have to stay reachable when the weather that took the power out is still happening.
- The placeholder handle against a named holder means the inventory dataset lags the registry rather than the number being genuinely unassigned. Reading the two together is how you tell those apart.
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 2026-10-30, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13465- Registry name
- SAMHOUSTONEC
- Registrant
- Sam Houston Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- jsandel@samhouston.net
- Registered
- 2025-12-04
- Last changed
- 2025-12-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS13465
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS13465
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: 447 networks and 1,848 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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