Autonomous system
AS15297 EPLUS-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
ePlus
business enterprise hosting
Three netname conventions from three eras, and one that names a range of third octets.
What it's used for
- A technology reseller and services company's network. Five IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6
/48announced from the United States, across three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Two blocks carry a netname naming the company, the protocol version, the word block and a counter, the most self describing label here.
- Two more use a retired carrier's two letter prefix with the address and a letter and digit suffix, a convention that appears on several unrelated networks in this range.
- The fifth is registered to a large carrier under
UUNETCBLK176-179, which names a range of third octets rather than any single block. - The company's name is recorded in two forms, one with the corporate form in capitals and one without.
- Fifteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A netname covering a span of octets is a record from when carriers registered whole swathes at once and cut customer blocks out of them afterwards. The label describes the parent, not this block.
- Three conventions across five blocks reads as three purchases: two from a carrier that no longer exists under that name, one still held by its successor, and two the company registered itself.
- Marking the protocol version in an IPv4 netname makes sense only if IPv6 was expected, and the single
/48here shows it arrived.
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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 3.07K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15297- Registry name
- EPLUS-ASN
- Registrant
- EPLUS, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- cfairbanks@eplus.com
- Registered
- 2000-04-14
- Last changed
- 2021-04-28
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 56% valid · 5 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS15297
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 6 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS15297
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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