Autonomous system
AS3954 DNIC-AS-03954 - United States Department of Defense (DoD)
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
US Department of Defense
government military legacy
A US Department of Defense network registered as DNIC-AS-03954 through the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).
What it's used for
- US government and military network operations. The registration identifies only the Department of Defense; the specific site, command, or unit behind it is not publicly stated.
Notable
- A government network, not a commercial ISP or hosting provider. The DoD holds a large number of ASNs registered under
DNIC-*handles, many of them in the low-numbered range from the internet's early years — a legacy of the military's role in funding and building the ARPANET.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS27066 | United States Department of Defense (DoD) | 488 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3954- Registry name
- DNIC-AS-03954
- Registrant
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)
- Abuse contact
- disa.columbus.ns.mbx.hostmaster-dod-nic@mail.mil
- Registered
- 1994-10-21
- Last changed
- 2025-09-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3954
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS3954
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: 455 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-11-13. 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