Autonomous system
AS2495 KANREN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Kansas Research and Education Network (KanREN)
education research legacy
KANREN is the Kansas Research and Education Network, a regional research-and-education network based in Lawrence, Kansas, providing connectivity to universities, schools, and other anchor institutions across Kansas.
What it's used for
- Backbone and internet connectivity for Kansas educational and research institutions.
Notable
- A regional education-network (NREN-style) address, not a commercial ISP or host. Registered in the early 1990s, reflected in the low AS number.
Interesting
- The University of Kansas connects through KanREN as AS2496.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Internet Exchange | Kansas City, United States | 206.51.7.15 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 14 downstream and 33 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 29 prefixes · 123K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 45 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS2495- Registry name
- KANREN
- Registrant
- Kansas Research and Education Network
- Abuse contact
- kr-abuse@kanren.net
- Registered
- 1993-02-10
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 492 authorising AS2495
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS2495
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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