Autonomous system
AS3851 NSHE-NEVADANET
Education ARIN
Summary
Nevada System of Higher Education (NevadaNet)
education research legacy
NevadaNet (NSHE-NEVADANET), the network of the Nevada System of Higher Education — the statewide body governing Nevada's public universities and colleges.
What it's used for
- Connecting the state's public institutions, including the University of Nevada campuses, community colleges, and the Desert Research Institute.
- About 164,000 IPv4 addresses supporting campus, research, and administrative networking across the system.
Notable
- This is an institutional network: addresses belong to campuses, labs, and university services rather than to individual paying subscribers.
- NevadaNet functions as the state's research and education backbone, the role that regional and state R&E networks play in most of the US.
Interesting
- The ASN was registered with ARIN in 1994 — the era when state higher-education systems, rather than commercial ISPs, were the entities building out regional internet infrastructure.
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 2026-10-21, 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 · 164K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3851- Registry name
- NSHE-NEVADANET
- Registrant
- Nevada System of Higher Education
- Abuse contact
- support@nevada.edu
- Registered
- 1994-09-26
- Last changed
- 2026-07-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Nevada System of Higher Education
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
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
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS3851
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS3851
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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