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Autonomous system

AS13997 RD-CHI-AS - Rapid Displays, Inc

Unclassified ARIN

IPv4 addresses 256 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 2 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Rapid Displays

United States · AI-generated

business enterprise

Two blocks, two site codes, one of which the AS handle also carries.

What it's used for

  • A display manufacturer's network. 512 addresses across two IPv4 prefixes, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

  • The blocks are 198.185.166.0/24, netname RD-UNC-NET, and 198.235.0.0/24, netname RD-CHI-NET.
  • Both register to Rapid Displays, Inc.
  • The AS handle is RD-CHI-AS, matching the second netname with a different suffix.
  • Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

  • The naming scheme has three slots: company initials, a site code, and a suffix saying what kind of object the record is. RD-CHI-NET and RD-CHI-AS are the same site described as a network and as an autonomous system, which is a convention consistent enough to have been written down somewhere inside the company.
  • One /24 per site is how a manufacturer with two facilities takes address space: enough to number everything at each location, and no interest in whether the two ranges are adjacent.
  • 198.235.0.0/24 sits at the very start of its parent range, the first block anyone was assigned out of it. Position within a range is a rough measure of how early somebody asked.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

2 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS7018AT&T Enterprises, LLC60
AS30640Etheric Networks, Inc.1

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America1

Registry

Allocation record

ARIN · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
ARIN
Handle
AS13997
Registry name
RD-CHI-AS
Registrant
Rapid Displays, Inc
Abuse contact
wjunge@rapiddisplays.com
Registered
2012-09-25
Last changed
2012-09-25
Allocation
assigned

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
ROAs
0 authorising AS13997
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
Route objects
4 naming AS13997

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 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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

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