Autonomous system
AS14661 LAURENTIANU
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Laurentian University
education research infrastructure
A halving chain down one range with two pieces missing, and a /24 from an entirely different block that is the only one filed under the university's full name.
What it's used for
- A university's campus network. 48,896 addresses across eight IPv4 prefixes, with two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Seven prefixes sit inside
142.51: two/18s, a/19, a/20, a/21, a/22and a/23, all carrying the netnameLARU. - The eighth is
192.26.235.0/24, and it alone carries the netnameLAURENTIAN. - The seven do not cover the range: the top quarter is absent, and so is a
/23in the middle of the lower half. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- The pieces halve neatly and then stop, twice. Whatever occupies the gaps is not announced through this AS, so either it sits behind somebody else's routing or it is simply unused and never advertised. A range that looks contiguous in an allocation record rarely is in the routing table.
- The odd
/24comes from a range unrelated to the rest, and it is the only block whose netname spells the institution out. Blocks acquired separately get filed separately, and the four-letter abbreviation was somebody's later shorthand. - Two neighbours holding a campus this size. Canadian universities reach the internet through a shared research network, and the second adjacency is what keeps teaching online when the first drops.
- Nothing answers 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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 48.90K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14661- Registry name
- LAURENTIANU
- Registrant
- Laurentian University of Sudbury
- Abuse contact
- noc@laurentian.ca
- Registered
- 2000-01-24
- Last changed
- 2023-05-31
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS14661
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS14661
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 1,784 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