Autonomous system
AS14583 VITA-VSP-1
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Virginia State Police
government infrastructure enterprise
The state's technology agency holds the number; the state police hold the addresses.
What it's used for
- A state police force's network. 1,024 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The AS name is the state's information technology agency, while the block
199.101.220.0/22is registered toVirginia State Police. - The netname is
VSPand the contact is an engineering group within the same force. - The AS handle joins both parties, agency first and force second, with a sequence number.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Two different levels of a state government appear in one AS record, and the handle is where they meet. Centralised technology agencies were created precisely so that individual departments would stop buying their own connectivity, and the compromise visible here is the agency holding the routing identity while the department keeps its own address space and its own engineers.
- That arrangement is worth noticing because it decides who answers when something goes wrong. The contact on the block is inside the police force, so a problem with these addresses reaches the people who run them rather than a central helpdesk.
- Two upstreams is right for a force whose systems support dispatch and records around the clock.
- Publishing nothing in reverse DNS is correct for law enforcement, where naming a host is a free hint about what it does.
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 · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14583- Registry name
- VITA-VSP-1
- Registrant
- Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA)
- Abuse contact
- abuse@vita.virginia.gov
- Registered
- 2005-09-22
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14583
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS14583
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