Autonomous system
AS297 AS297 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Business ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
government research
AS297 is an operational network of NASA, the US federal civilian space agency. It carries NASA's own institutional and mission-support traffic rather than any commercial service.
What it's used for
- Internal and mission-support connectivity for NASA facilities, programs, and science operations.
Notable
- An IP here is a US government / federal-agency address, not a consumer ISP, mobile carrier, or hosting provider.
- NASA runs several ASNs across its centers and programs; AS297 is one of the long-standing ones, allocated in 1989 and registered through ARIN.
Interesting
- Its low AS number reflects an allocation from the early days of the internet, when NASA networks predated most of today's commercial providers.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.237.220 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) | San Jose, United States | 206.223.116.190 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 5 downstream and 16 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 58 prefixes · 649K addresses IPv6 50 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 108 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS297- Registry name
- AS297
- Registrant
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nasa.gov
- Registered
- 1989-06-09
- Last changed
- 2024-12-16
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NASA / CSO
- Also known as
- NISN
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS297:AS-CONE- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- http://cso.nasa.gov
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
- 14% valid · 4 valid, 25 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS297
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 66% registered · 19 of 29 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 64 naming AS297
Reputation
Classification and threat
Business Corporate network, or multi-tenant SASE egress carrying staff browsing.
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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