Autonomous system
AS6056 COLBY
Education APNIC
Summary
Colby College
education university legacy
AS6056 (COLBY) is the campus network of Colby College, a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine.
What it's used for
- Campus networking for a single college: academic and administrative systems, residence-hall and classroom connectivity, and the college's public-facing web services.
Notable
- Addresses here are institutional, not consumer. They belong to students, staff and campus systems rather than to an ISP's subscribers, so traffic from this range typically originates on a university campus.
- It announces exactly one prefix, the legacy
137.146.0.0/16— a full classful/16for a college of a few thousand students. That ratio of address space to headcount is the signature of an early-1990s academic allocation, made when addresses were handed out generously and NAT was not yet the norm.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS557 | University of Maine System | 69 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-29, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6056- Registry name
- COLBY
- Registrant
- Colby College
- Abuse contact
- abuse@colby.edu
- Registered
- 1995-10-24
- Last changed
- 2024-03-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6056
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6056
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 1,849 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