Autonomous system
AS14038 DRAKE-UNIVERSITY
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Drake University
education research infrastructure
Eight thousand public addresses whose netname says they sit behind address translation.
What it's used for
- A university's network. 8,192 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix,
198.7.192.0/19, plus one IPv6 prefix,2602:802:4000::/48, with two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The IPv4 block carries the netname
DU-CLIENTNAT, registered toDrake University. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The IPv6 prefix comes from the range the registry assigns directly to organisations rather than through a provider.
Interesting
- The netname is a description of purpose, and an unusual one. It marks the whole
/19as the pool that campus clients are translated into: thousands of laptops and phones sharing a much smaller set of public addresses on the way out. Most universities of this vintage handed a routable address to every machine, so this record is a snapshot of the moment that stopped being sensible. - That also explains the silence on reverse lookups. Addresses that only ever appear as the source of outbound traffic have nothing useful to be called, and naming them individually would suggest a permanence they do not have.
- Two neighbours, one
/19and one/48is the standard shape of a campus that joined a regional research network and kept a commercial link alongside it. The/48is a later addition; the/19predates the university's need to explain itself.
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 2026-10-31, 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 · 8.19K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14038- Registry name
- DRAKE-UNIVERSITY
- Registrant
- Drake University
- Abuse contact
- chris.mielke@drake.edu
- Registered
- 2019-02-08
- Last changed
- 2019-02-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 36 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14038
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 36 of 36 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS14038
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 1,845 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