Autonomous system
AS5642 ASHDOWN-TECH - Ashdown Technologies, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Ashdown Technologies, Inc.
hosting legacy
The network of Ashdown Technologies, Inc., a small internet services company in the Manchaug mill village of Sutton, Massachusetts, registered under the handle ASHDOWN-TECH.
What it's used for
- Web and email hosting, virtual servers, server colocation, and cloud backup for the company's customers.
- Internet access delivered from its Manchaug Mills premises, plus the company's own DNS and gateway infrastructure. Reverse DNS across the space resolves under
ashdowntech.com.
Notable
- A genuinely small operator: two /24s, roughly 512 addresses in total, mixing hosting customers with the company's own network plumbing.
- ARIN registered the AS in 1995. The registrant organisation handle ends in
-Z, a legacy-record cleanup marker, not evidence that the AS changed hands.
Interesting
- The firm dates to 1982 and has been selling internet services since the mid-1990s, run out of a historic New England mill complex. That is an unusually long tenure for a network of this size.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS23132 | Charter Communications LLC | 124 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-04, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5642- Registry name
- ASHDOWN-TECH
- Registrant
- Ashdown Technologies, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- nocsupport@ashdowntech.com
- Registered
- 1995-07-18
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5642
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS5642
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: 452 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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