Autonomous system
AS32872 DIFF-COMP-01
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Difficult Computing
hosting colocation vintage business
The AS handle DIFF-COMP-01 is held by Difficult Computing, LLC.
What it's used for
- The address space carries private web hosting and colocation services, as indicated by the reverse DNS entries pointing to
difficultcomputing.comand the netnameDC-FMT2-V4-01. - The AS announces 256 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 4 observed neighbours, suggesting a small-scale hosting or business network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- The registrant for the announced prefix 23.157.120.0/24 is Difficult Computing, LLC, which matches the AS holder.
- The address inventory consists of a single /24 IPv4 block and a /40 IPv6 block, indicating a compact and focused network footprint.
CLASSIFICATION - after the card, on its own final line, emit exactly:
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange | Fremont, United States | 206.80.238.162 |
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS32872- Registry name
- DIFF-COMP-01
- Registrant
- Difficult Computing, LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@difficultcomputing.com
- Registered
- 2023-06-27
- Last changed
- 2023-06-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS32872
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS32872
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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