Autonomous system
AS13862 NCSU-SNARE
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
North Carolina State University (SNARE)
education research business
A university's second AS, named for a project rather than the campus, carrying one /24.
What it's used for
- A university research network. 256 addresses in the single IPv4 prefix
192.58.122.0/24, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS handle and the netname are both the university's initials joined to a five-letter word.
- That word names neither the institution nor any department in the registrant field.
- The registrant is the university itself.
- One upstream carries the whole block.
- First seen in the routing archive on 2006-02-22, timestamped at midnight.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Universities run their campus traffic under one AS and then take a second number for work that has to be kept away from it. A separate AS with one upstream and one small block is the shape of a project network: the routing is kept simple because the point is isolation, not reachability.
- Naming the object after the project rather than the institution is what makes it legible years later. The initials say who is responsible and the word says which effort it belongs to, which is more than most of the enterprise records in this range manage.
- A first-seen date well after the university's main network appeared dates the project, not the campus.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS81 | MCNC | 61 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, 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
AS13862- Registry name
- NCSU-SNARE
- Registrant
- North Carolina State University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@snare.ncsu.edu
- Registered
- 2018-10-01
- Last changed
- 2019-11-15
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS13862
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS13862
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: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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