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Autonomous system

AS42 WOODYNET-1

Unclassified ARIN

IPv4 addresses 53.76K 87 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 89 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

WoodyNet / Packet Clearing House

Global · AI-generated

research legacy

An early low-numbered allocation (WOODYNET-1) belonging to WoodyNet, Inc.,

the organization behind Packet Clearing House (PCH), which supports critical

internet infrastructure worldwide.

What it's used for

  • Operational support for Internet exchange points and core DNS infrastructure, including anycast name-server and route-collector services.

Notable

  • A research and infrastructure network, not a commercial hosting or transit product.
  • AS42 is a well-known number in networking circles, fitting for an organization central to internet operations.

Interesting

  • PCH's Bill Woodcock is credited with developing the anycast routing technique in 1989, now used throughout CDNs and the DNS.

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Address space

Summary

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CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America176

Registry

Allocation record

via ARIN RDAP
Registry
ARIN
Handle
AS42
Registry name
WOODYNET-1
Registrant
WoodyNet, Inc.
Abuse contact
woody@pch.net
Registered
2001-05-16
Last changed
2012-03-02
Status
active

Reputation

Classification and threat

Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.

No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.

Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.

Elsewhere

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