Autonomous system
AS16498 LASALLE - LaSalle University
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
LaSalle University
education research infrastructure
Eleven pieces of one parent range, at six different sizes, all called the same thing.
What it's used for
- A university's network. Eleven IPv4 prefixes announced from the United States, no IPv6, sixteen thousand one hundred and twenty-eight addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every block comes from the same parent range, and every one is registered under the same seven-letter netname: the university's name with nothing added.
- The pieces come at six different sizes, from the largest here down to the smallest routable one, and they cluster in two groups at opposite ends of the parent range with a gap between them.
- The announced total is a fraction of the parent range, so most of the university's allocation is not routed here at all.
- The AS handle is the same seven letters as the netname, with the university word dropped from both.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Two clusters with a gap between them is the shape of a network that grew from both ends. Somebody started at the bottom of the range and somebody else started partway up, and the middle was left for later.
- Announcing a fraction of an allocation is normal and invisible from outside. What a network routes is a decision; what it holds is a fact, and only the first one shows up in the routing table.
- A netname repeated eleven times is a field filled in by habit: honest, and distinguishing nothing.
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 2026-11-05, 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 · 3.84K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS16498- Registry name
- LASALLE
- Registrant
- LaSalle University
- Abuse contact
- tarloski@lasalle.edu
- Registered
- 2000-05-03
- Last changed
- 2020-10-05
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 33% valid · 1 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16498
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS16498
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: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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