Autonomous system
AS57 NL-GIGAPOP
Unclassified ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
Northern Lights GigaPoP (University of Minnesota)
education research legacy
An early low-numbered allocation (NL-GIGAPOP) operated by the University of Minnesota as the Northern Lights GigaPoP, a regional research-and-education network.
What it's used for
- Internet and Internet2 connectivity for research, education, and government entities in Minnesota and the surrounding region.
Notable
- A research/education network aggregation point, not a commercial ISP or host.
- The low AS number reflects the University of Minnesota's early presence on the internet.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange | Minneapolis, United States | 206.108.255.51 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 18 downstream and 39 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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 2.82K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS57- Registry name
- NL-GIGAPOP
- Registrant
- University of Minnesota
- Abuse contact
- abuse@umn.edu
- Registered
- 1985-12-18
- Last changed
- 2021-11-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Northern Lights GigaPOP
- Also known as
- Northern Lights GigaPOP
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-NLG-PARTICIPANTS- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- https://it.umn.edu/northern-lights-gigapop-introduction
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
- 20% valid · 1 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS57
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS57
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 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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