Autonomous system
AS15191 WIN-NET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Western Independent Networks
isp telecom infrastructure
Two equal blocks of space, one announced as a single route and one as four.
What it's used for
- A regional carrier's network. Six IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6 prefix announced from the United States, with eleven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
198.29.32.0/21is announced as one route, while the adjacent range of the same size is announced as four separate/23routes that sit end to end with no gap.- Both halves carry the same netname and the same registrant, so nothing in the registry distinguishes them.
- One further block uses a shortened netname with a counter instead, the only variation in the record.
- Sixteen of eighteen sampled addresses answered, all writing the address into the host label with hyphens under one domain.
- Several of those answers are for addresses ending in two hundred and fifty-five, which are broadcast addresses of their blocks and belong to no host.
Interesting
- The same operator made two opposite choices about the same amount of space. Four routes where one would do is the common outcome when blocks arrive separately and the configuration is never revisited; the single aggregate next door proves the operator knows how.
- A reverse zone that answers for broadcast addresses was generated for the entire block, so a name here confirms only that the block is delegated. It says nothing about whether an address is in use.
- Eleven upstreams for five thousand addresses is a carrier's profile, not a customer's.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.29 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15191- Registry name
- WIN-NET
- Registrant
- Western Independent Networks, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- tech@win-networks.com
- Registered
- 2012-11-30
- Last changed
- 2012-11-30
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 90% valid · 9 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS15191
- ASPA
- 4 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS15191
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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