Autonomous system
AS3705 GPO-NET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
government legacy
GPO-NET is the network of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, the federal agency responsible for producing and distributing the official publications of the United States government.
What it's used for
- Public access to official federal documents: the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, bills, statutes, and agency publications.
- Agency infrastructure supporting printing, digital publishing, and secure credential production.
Notable
- Government address space, and unusually public-facing for a federal agency — GPO's whole mandate is to publish, so much of what sits behind this ASN is meant to be read by citizens.
- The agency was known as the Government Printing Office for most of its history and was renamed the Government Publishing Office in 2014, reflecting the shift from paper to digital distribution.
Interesting
- GPO's presence on the early internet was part of a broader push to put the official record of government online, which is why a publishing agency holds an AS number this low.
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
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 2026-10-25, 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 · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3705- Registry name
- GPO-NET
- Registrant
- U.S. Government Publishing Office
- Abuse contact
- nsahibzada@gpo.gov
- Registered
- 1994-08-31
- Last changed
- 1994-08-31
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3705
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 50% registered · 1 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS3705
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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