Autonomous system
AS15268 MDARCHIVES
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Maryland State Archives
government infrastructure
The archives hold the AS number; the state holds the block.
What it's used for
- A state archive's network. A single IPv4
/24announced from the United States, no IPv6, and one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The AS number belongs to the archives while the block it announces is registered to the state government, so the routing and the registry name different bodies.
- The netname is the state's network programme run into one word, with no separator and no counter.
- The AS handle abbreviates the state and names the archives, the only field that mentions them at all.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- Two hundred and fifty-six addresses behind one upstream.
Interesting
- A department holding its own AS number inside a state's address space is a compromise between central administration and departmental independence. The state keeps the registration; the department controls its own routing and can change upstream without asking.
- One upstream makes that independence theoretical. The number allows a second provider; nothing in the routing shows one.
- An archive's network carries digitised public records, which are meant to be reachable indefinitely. Nothing here is published beyond the routing, so the addresses give no clue which service is where.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS27026 | networkMaryland | 59 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15268- Registry name
- MDARCHIVES
- Registrant
- Maryland State Archives
- Abuse contact
- wei.yang@maryland.gov
- Registered
- 2000-04-12
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS15268
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS15268
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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