Autonomous system
AS229 MERIT-AS-6
Unclassified ARIN
IPv4 addresses
1.02K
2 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
1
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly US
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Merit Network
education research legacy
Merit Network (MERIT-AS-6), Michigan's non-profit research and education
network, one of the oldest continuously operating networks in the US.
What it's used for
- Backbone and connectivity for Michigan's universities, schools, libraries, and government (a research and education network).
Notable
- A non-profit research/education network, not a commercial ISP.
- The low AS number reflects an early-internet allocation, handed out roughly sequentially.
Interesting
- Merit operated the NSFNET backbone in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a pivotal step in the internet's growth beyond the original ARPANET.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS229- Registry name
- MERIT-AS-6
- Registrant
- Merit Network Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@merit.edu
- Registered
- 1988-09-12
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- 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