Autonomous system
AS600 OARNET-AS - OARnet
Unclassified ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
OARnet (Ohio Academic Resources Network)
education research legacy
OARnet, the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARNET-AS), a statewide research and education network serving Ohio's universities, schools, and public institutions.
What it's used for
- Statewide backbone and connectivity for Ohio's higher education, K-12, health care, and government institutions.
Notable
- A research-and-education network (REN), not a commercial ISP. Part of Ohio's public technology infrastructure.
- The low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years, handed out roughly sequentially.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.237.96 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.161 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 56 downstream and 73 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 2026-11-03, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 263 prefixes · 900K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 265 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS600- Registry name
- OARNET-AS
- Registrant
- OARnet
- Abuse contact
- support@oar.net
- Registered
- 1990-03-11
- Last changed
- 2019-11-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- OARnet
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS600:AS-CONE- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- http://www.oar.net/
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 84 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS600
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 84 of 84 announcements
- Route objects
- 158 naming AS600
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: 451 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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