Autonomous system
AS5978 AS5978
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
US Department of Defense
government military legacy
A US Department of Defense network from the block DNIC-ASBLK-05800-06055, registered to the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).
What it's used for
- US government / military networking. It announces a small set of prefixes from the DNIC-held
204.222.0.0and199.208.0.0ranges. The generic block registration does not name a specific base, unit or mission.
Notable
- A government / DoD network, not a commercial ISP or host.
- A small footprint — around 1,000 IPv4 addresses across three prefixes.
- Part of a contiguous run of ASNs (5800–6055) held by the DoD Network Information Center, and it draws from the same
204.222.0.0parent block as AS5957.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS668 | United States Department of Defense (DoD) | 204 |
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 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- 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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5978
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS5978
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: 442 networks and 1,773 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