Autonomous system
AS2496 UKANS - University of Kansas
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
University of Kansas
education university research legacy
UKANS is the University of Kansas, the state's flagship public research university in Lawrence, Kansas.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking for the University of Kansas.
Notable
- A university "eyeball"/institutional address, not a commercial ISP or host. Registered in the early 1990s, reflected in the low AS number.
Interesting
- The university reaches the wider internet through the Kansas Research and Education Network, AS2495.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS2495 | Kansas Research and Education Network | 162 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-03, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS2496- Registry name
- UKANS
- Registrant
- University of Kansas
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ku.edu
- Registered
- 1993-02-10
- Last changed
- 2023-08-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS2496
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS2496
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: 451 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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