Autonomous system
AS40421 PC-NETBLOCK
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Providence College
education business us
The AS handle PC-NETBLOCK is held by Providence College.
What it's used for
- The address space carries institutional infrastructure, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
ssbtest15.providence.eduandadfs.providence.edu. - The network announces 256 IPv4 addresses across 1 prefix with 1 observed neighbour, indicating a small, self-contained campus network rather than a transit or large-scale access provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of university staff, students, and administrative systems operating within the college's internal network.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant
Providence Collegematches the AS holder and the netnamePC-IPV4-NETBLOCK. - The address inventory consists of a single /24 block, which is typical for a small educational institution managing its own IP space.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS14325 | OSHEAN, Inc. | 60 |
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS40421- Registry name
- PC-NETBLOCK
- Registrant
- Providence College
- Abuse contact
- schattle@providence.edu
- Registered
- 2014-09-29
- Last changed
- 2014-09-29
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS40421
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS40421
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