Autonomous system
AS16 LBL
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
government research legacy
An early allocation (LBL) belonging to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a US Department of Energy national lab in Berkeley, California.
What it's used for
- Scientific research networking for a DOE national laboratory.
Notable
- A US government research network, not a commercial ISP. A low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years.
Interesting
- LBL was long a hub of networking and security research, including early work on packet monitoring and intrusion detection.
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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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 131K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16- Registry name
- LBL
- Registrant
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Abuse contact
- security@lbl.gov
- Last changed
- 2024-12-30
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS16
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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