Autonomous system
AS13764 KPU-CA-AS-1
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
education research business
The handle and the netname are the same string with one field naming the AS and the other the prefix length.
What it's used for
- A polytechnic university's network. 2,048 addresses in the single IPv4 prefix
162.245.248.0/21, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle is
KPU-CA-AS-1and the block is netnameKPU-CA-21-1. - Both are initials, a country code, a distinguishing part and a counter, in the same order.
- The distinguishing part in the netname is the prefix length rather than a word.
- One neighbour carries the whole network.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Two identifiers built to the same template, differing only in the slot that says what kind of object they are, is what a naming convention looks like when someone actually wrote one down. Most networks in this range have no such thing, and their handles and netnames agree by accident when they agree at all.
- Using the prefix length as the distinguishing part works exactly once per size. A second /21 would need a different counter, and the scheme already provides one.
- One upstream for an institution of this size means the AS number buys the ability to change carrier without renumbering, rather than the ability to survive a carrier failing.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS271 | BCNET | 122 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS13764- Registry name
- KPU-CA-AS-1
- Registrant
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kpu.ca
- Registered
- 2014-05-20
- Last changed
- 2014-05-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 1 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS13764
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 50% registered · 1 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS13764
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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