Autonomous system
AS13671 VRIS-AS-BLOCK
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Verizon Business
transit telecom isp
A single block whose netname records the year, the product and the sequence number of an allocation made for dial-up.
What it's used for
- A carrier-held AS. 512 addresses in the single IPv4 prefix
68.128.232.0/23, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The block is netname
NETBLK-UUNET97DU-3BLK, registered to the carrier with an abuse contact. - The netname stacks four things: the words for network block, a former carrier's name, a two-digit year with a product abbreviation, and a counter with the words for block again.
- The AS handle is
VRIS-AS-BLOCK, shared with other AS numbers rather than naming this one. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Two-digit years in identifiers are a habit that predates the anxiety about them and survived it. This one dates the allocation to a period when the abbreviation for dial-up was worth putting in the field, because there was more than one kind of access to distinguish.
- The word for network block appears twice in one netname, once at the front and once at the end, so the field says what it is, whose it is, when it was cut, and that it is a block, twice.
- Space cut for modems, in the year the netname records, is still announced, still routed, and now carries whatever the carrier moved onto it.
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
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS1383 | Verizon Business | 118 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13661- Registry name
- VRIS-AS-BLOCK
- Registrant
- Verizon Business
- Abuse contact
- abuse@verizon.com
- Registered
- 1999-07-27
- Last changed
- 2022-05-31
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS13671
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS13671
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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