Autonomous system
AS4868 PIONEER
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
enterprise legacy
PIONEER belongs to Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., the agricultural seed company founded in Iowa and today part of Corteva Agriscience.
What it's used for
- Pioneer's own corporate network: research stations, production sites, sales offices and business systems.
- Announcing a substantial set of prefixes out of
170.54.0.0/16— several thousand IPv4 addresses spread across many /23s and /24s.
Notable
- A pure enterprise network. The addresses front company sites rather than customers, which is why the prefixes are numerous but each one small: they map to a geographically dispersed agribusiness footprint.
- Pioneer's ARIN organisation record dates to the early 1990s, when large US corporations were among the first non-academic entities to take their own address space and AS numbers.
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
9 upstream, 0 downstream and 9 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-30, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 4.61K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS4868- Registry name
- PIONEER
- Registrant
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@pioneer.com
- Registered
- 2009-09-18
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS4868
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS4868
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-30. 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