Autonomous system
AS270 AS270 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
NASA
government research legacy
A network of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the federal civilian space and aeronautics agency.
What it's used for
- Networking for NASA's centers, missions, and research and administrative operations.
Notable
- A US government / research network with a large legacy IP footprint. The low AS number reflects NASA's early presence on the internet.
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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, 4 downstream and 5 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS297 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 10,970 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 108 prefixes · 1.86M addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 108 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS270- Registry name
- AS270
- Registrant
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nasa.gov
- Registered
- 1989-02-24
- Last changed
- 2024-12-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0.5% valid · 1 valid, 186 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS270
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 5% registered · 9 of 187 announcements 56 other origin
- Route objects
- 45 naming AS270
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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