Autonomous system
AS3450 UTK
Education ARIN
Summary
University of Tennessee
education university research legacy
UTK is the University of Tennessee, the state's flagship public university, centred on its Knoxville campus.
What it's used for
- Campus networking for students, faculty, and staff: residence halls, teaching and lab networks, administrative systems, and the university's public web services.
- Research computing and data movement for the university's science programmes.
Notable
- This is institutional academic address space with a sizeable footprint, reflecting a large public research university rather than a small college.
- A low four-digit AS number places the registration in the era when US research universities were among the earliest organisations to run their own autonomous systems.
Interesting
- The Knoxville campus sits close to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the university has long-running joint research ties with the lab, which puts real scientific data movement behind this ASN.
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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.
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 7 prefixes · 103K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3450- Registry name
- UTK
- Registrant
- University of Tennessee
- Abuse contact
- abuse@utk.edu
- Registered
- 1994-02-18
- Last changed
- 2021-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 23 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS3450
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 24 of 24 announcements
- Route objects
- 113 naming AS3450
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 443 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