Autonomous system
AS557 UMAINE-SYS-AS
Unclassified ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
University of Maine System
education university legacy
The University of Maine System (UMAINE-SYS-AS), the statewide public university system in Maine.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking across the University of Maine System's institutions.
Notable
- An institutional / "eyeball" network for a public university system, not commercial hosting.
- The low AS number reflects how early the university connected, handed out sequentially in the internet's first years.
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
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.53.143.46 |
| Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange | Portland, ME, United States | 206.71.140.100 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 293K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS557- Registry name
- UMAINE-SYS-AS
- Registrant
- University of Maine System
- Abuse contact
- abuse@maine.edu
- Registered
- 1989-12-13
- Last changed
- 2026-09-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- University of Maine System
- Also known as
- Networkmaine
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-NETWORKMAINE- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.maine.edu
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 78% valid · 14 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS557
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 16 of 18 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS557
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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