Autonomous system
AS1856 DISN-PILOTNET2
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
RTX BBN Technologies (DISN PilotNet)
research legacy
Registered to RTX BBN Technologies, Inc. (DISN-PILOTNET2), the research firm
formerly known as Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), later Raytheon BBN, now part of
RTX. The handle refers to a Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) pilot /
testbed network operated by BBN.
What it's used for
- Defense-networking research and pilot/testbed operations.
Notable
- A research-contractor network tied to DoD network experimentation, not a commercial ISP or host.
Interesting
- BBN built the original ARPANET's Interface Message Processors in 1969, a founding role in the internet's history.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 34 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS1856- Registry name
- DISN-PILOTNET2
- Registrant
- RTX BBN Technologies, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- matthew.gillen@raytheon.com
- Registered
- 1992-05-27
- Last changed
- 2022-09-20
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere