Autonomous system
AS14598 YCP-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
York College of Pennsylvania
education research infrastructure
The one address that answered names a building alarm system.
What it's used for
- A college campus network. 768 IPv4 addresses across three prefixes, one large IPv6 allocation, and two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
192.245.87.127answers asspringettsbury.alarm.ycp.edu, naming a place and a system in the same hostname.- The three blocks carry three different netnames:
COGENT-A, held by the provider,YORK-COLLEGE-OF-PENNSYLVANIAspelled out in full, andYCPAreduced to initials. - The IPv6 announcement is
2602:f907::/36, far larger than the IPv4 footprint. - Nine addresses were queried for reverse DNS and one returned a name.
Interesting
- Publishing a hostname that says alarm, with the site it protects as the first label, tells anyone scanning which address to look at first and what it does. It costs nothing to name that host something opaque, and campus networks are full of names like this because the person who set it up needed to find it again.
- Three netnames for one institution is a record of how it bought connectivity over time: a block in the carrier's name, a block filed with the college name written out by someone who had room, and an older one abbreviated to four letters by someone who did not.
- The IPv6 allocation dwarfs everything else here, which is normal for education. Universities were early recipients of large ranges and mostly still have them.
- Two upstreams for a campus is standard, and the smaller half of the arrangement is usually a research network rather than a commercial one.
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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14598- Registry name
- YCP-ASN
- Registrant
- York College of Pennsylvania
- Abuse contact
- cwickline@ycp.edu
- Registered
- 2010-07-09
- Last changed
- 2023-12-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 50% valid · 2 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS14598
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 50% registered · 2 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS14598
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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