Autonomous system
AS14169 VMI-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Virginia Military Institute
education research infrastructure
One prefix, one neighbour, and three separate role contacts on the single registry record.
What it's used for
- A military college's campus network. 65,536 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix,
144.75.0.0/16, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The block carries the netname
VMI, registered toVirginia Military Institute. - The record lists three role contacts:
Abuse,HelpDeskandITAdmin. - The AS handle is
VMI-ASN. - Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The routing archive has carried it since the archive began.
Interesting
- Three contacts against one prefix is more attention than most networks in this range give their entire estate. Somebody filled the form in properly: a place to report abuse, a place for users, and a place for other network operators. Each is a role rather than a person, so none of them breaks when staff leave.
- The netname is three letters and nothing else. A campus with one block never needs a second name to tell them apart, and the absence of a suffix is itself a sign the record has stayed simple since the day it was made.
- One neighbour underneath a whole college. There is no second provider, so a single circuit failing takes the campus off the internet, which is a cost decision every small institution makes.
- Announced whole, with nothing answering a reverse lookup on any address sampled.
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 2026-10-22, 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 · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14169- Registry name
- VMI-ASN
- Registrant
- Virginia Military Institute
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vmi.edu
- Registered
- 2017-07-14
- Last changed
- 2017-07-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14169
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS14169
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-23. 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