Autonomous system
AS26499 VATECH-DCMETRO - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Virginia Tech
education residential business
VATECH-DCMETRO is operated by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
What it's used for
- The address space carries university infrastructure, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
arlington-38-68-235-254.ncr.vt.edu,icab-router.lo0.0.nis.vt.edu, andprinter8.emc.vt.edu. - The AS announces 8960 IPv4 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes, with only 2 observed neighbours, indicating a role as an access or eyeball network for the campus community.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes include both Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (netnames
VA-TECH-RES) and Cogent Communications, LLC (netnameCOGENT-A), suggesting a mix of owned and leased or transit-related space. - The inventory consists of four IPv4 prefixes, including a /20 and a /23, alongside two IPv6 prefixes, reflecting a standard university network footprint.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 8.96K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS26499- Registry name
- VATECH-DCMETRO
- Registrant
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.
- Abuse contact
- nis-neo-g@vt.edu
- Registered
- 2024-01-17
- Last changed
- 2024-10-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- VATECH-DCMETRO
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Website
- http://www.vt.edu/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS26499
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS26499
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: 454 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-11-14. 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