Autonomous system
AS3912 CHECS
Education ARIN
Summary
CHECS (New Mexico higher-education computing consortium)
education research legacy
CHECS is the New Mexico higher-education computing and communications consortium, a non-profit whose members are the IT organisations of the state's colleges and universities. It is registered in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
What it's used for
- Shared networking and collaborative technology planning across New Mexico's higher-education institutions, including the state's universities and their branch campuses.
Notable
- A consortium ASN rather than a single campus: the address space serves member institutions collectively, which is a common pattern for state-level research and education networks.
- Registered with ARIN in 1996, during the period when regional and state academic networks were building out their own routing.
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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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 38 prefixes · 8.94K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 39 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3912- Registry name
- CHECS
- Registrant
- CHECS
- Abuse contact
- noc@checs.net
- Registered
- 1996-10-01
- Last changed
- 2023-09-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3912
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 16 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS3912
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: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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