Autonomous system
AS5766 IHS-MD-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Indian Health Service
government legacy
IHS-MD-AS is the Indian Health Service, the US federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that provides healthcare to American Indian and Alaska Native people. The MD in the handle refers to the agency's Maryland headquarters.
What it's used for
- The agency's own wide-area network, connecting IHS hospitals, health centres and clinics to headquarters systems and to the internet.
Notable
- A government healthcare network: the addresses belong to federal facilities and staff, not to consumers or hosting customers.
- ARIN registered this ASN to the IHS in 1995, so the low number is a genuine mid-90s federal allocation rather than a reissue.
Interesting
- IHS sites are spread across reservations and rural Alaska, some of the hardest-to-reach places in the United States, so this network's edge reaches further into low-connectivity territory than most enterprise WANs.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5766- Registry name
- IHS-MD-AS
- Registrant
- Indian Health Service
- Abuse contact
- NOSC@IHS.GOV
- Registered
- 1995-10-12
- Last changed
- 2024-12-13
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere