Autonomous system
AS5132 DNIC-ASBLK-05120-05376
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
US Department of Defense
government military research legacy
A US Department of Defense network from the block DNIC-ASBLK-05120-05376, registered to the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).
What it's used for
- DoD research networking. Everything it originates comes from
2001:480::/32, the address range of the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), whose blocks are registered to the DoD's High Performance Computing program.
Notable
- A government / military network, not a commercial ISP or host.
- Unusually, this ASN announces only IPv6 — a handful of
/48s and no IPv4 at all, which is why its IPv4 count is zero. - The generic DNIC block registration does not name a specific base or unit beyond the Department of Defense.
Interesting
- DREN is the DoD's high-performance computing and research backbone, and it was an early and aggressive adopter of IPv6 within the US federal government. An IPv6-only ASN is a fingerprint of that lineage.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS668 | United States Department of Defense (DoD) | 222 |
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 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5120- Registry name
- DNIC-ASBLK-05120-05376
- Registrant
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)
- Abuse contact
- disa.columbus.ns.mbx.hostmaster-dod-nic@mail.mil
- Registered
- 1995-05-09
- Last changed
- 2026-09-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5132
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS5132
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