Autonomous system
AS3130 RGNET-SEA RGnet Seattle Westin
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
RGnet (PSGnet)
research legacy
RGNET-SEA is RGnet, the small network run by long-time routing researcher and network operator Randy Bush. The name points at its home: a rack in the Westin Building, Seattle's carrier hotel.
What it's used for
- Routing research and measurement. RGnet describes itself as "just a research rack or two", and it takes transit and peers openly, largely so that it can observe and experiment with real BGP from a real vantage point on the internet.
- It also carries
psg.com, the long-running personal and research host behind much of that work.
Notable
- This is neither an eyeball ISP nor a commercial host. It is a deliberately tiny network whose value is in what it lets people learn about routing, and it turns up regularly in BGP research and operator mailing-list traffic.
- The AS number now sits under the RIPE registry, held by the Estonian entity RGnet OÜ, though the network itself lives in Seattle.
Interesting
- Its open peering policy asks for neither contracts nor traffic ratios, which is about as far from a commercial peering posture as a network can get.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.81.212 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 272 downstream and 294 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 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EE | Estonia | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3130- Registry name
- RGNET-SEA
- Registrant
- MAINT-RGNET
- Abuse contact
- blackhole@bogus.com
- Registered
- 2002-08-11
- Last changed
- 2026-05-03
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS3130
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS3130
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