Autonomous system
AS5831 DNIC-ASBLK-05800-06055
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
US Department of Defense
government military legacy
AS5831 is a US Department of Defense network, registered as part of the block
DNIC-ASBLK-05800-06055 held by the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).
What it's used for
- US government / military networking. The block registration is generic and does not name a specific base, command or unit.
Notable
- An IP here belongs to a government / military network, not a commercial ISP or hosting provider.
- It announces two full legacy
/16s (140.47.0.0and140.48.0.0) plus a single/24, about 130,000 addresses in all, with almost no deaggregation. - Part of a large contiguous run of DoD-held ASNs (5800–6055), allocated to the DNIC as a block rather than one at a time.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS5800- Registry name
- DNIC-ASBLK-05800-06055
- Registrant
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)
- Abuse contact
- disa.columbus.ns.mbx.hostmaster-dod-nic@mail.mil
- Registered
- 1995-10-24
- Last changed
- 2025-09-12
- 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