Autonomous system
AS217 UMN-SYSTEM
Unclassified ARIN
IPv4 addresses
326K
9 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
1
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
University of Minnesota
education university research legacy
The University of Minnesota system network (UMN-SYSTEM), serving the university's
campuses in Minnesota.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking across the University of Minnesota system.
Notable
- An institutional / education network, not commercial hosting.
- The low AS number reflects how early the university connected, when numbers were handed out roughly sequentially.
Interesting
- Minnesota is where the Gopher protocol was created in 1991, an early pre-Web way to organize and browse information over the internet.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS217- Registry name
- UMN-SYSTEM
- Registrant
- University of Minnesota
- Abuse contact
- abuse@umn.edu
- Registered
- 1988-07-25
- Last changed
- 2025-03-31
- 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