Autonomous system
AS3944 PARTAN-LAB
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Partan & Partan
enterprise legacy
A small independent network (PARTAN-LAB) registered to Partan & Partan of Takoma Park, Maryland, the practice of long-time network engineer Andrew Partan.
What it's used for
- A handful of
/24s announced from a small private network — a lab and consulting network rather than a commercial service provider. - Address space includes blocks out of ranges historically associated with early US internet exchange and backbone infrastructure.
Notable
- Tiny by address count, but it holds its own AS number and speaks BGP — the classic profile of a network run by someone who works on the internet for a living and wants their own routing policy.
- Andrew Partan is a familiar name in early internet engineering circles, including contributions to the BIND DNS server.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS16668 | GBP Software, LLC | 195 |
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 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3944- Registry name
- PARTAN-LAB
- Registrant
- Partan & Partan
- Abuse contact
- asp@partan.com
- Registered
- 2001-01-22
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- PARTAN-LAB
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Website
- http://partan.com
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3944
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS3944
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: 442 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