Autonomous system
AS6112 AUBURN - Auburn University
Education ARIN
Summary
Auburn University
education university research legacy
AUBURN is the campus network of Auburn University, the land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama.
What it's used for
- The full range of a university's networking: residence halls, classrooms and labs, faculty and staff offices, library and administrative systems, and research computing.
- Its announced space is a single class-B-sized block,
131.204.0.0/16: one clean 65,536-address range for the whole campus.
Notable
- An institutional address: an IP here belongs to a campus device, a lab, or a student's dorm connection. It maps to a university, not to a household or a hosting customer.
- The single-/16 shape is characteristic of universities that were allocated address space before IPv4 scarcity, and it makes the campus trivially easy to identify from routing data.
Interesting
- Auburn's Office of Information Technology holds the registration outright, so the university runs its own autonomous system rather than sitting behind a state or regional network's ASN. That is a common choice among large research campuses.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS10490 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 61 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-07, 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
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6112- Registry name
- AUBURN
- Registrant
- Auburn University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@auburn.edu
- Last changed
- 2013-02-21
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Auburn University
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://auburn.edu/
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, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6112
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6112
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: 454 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-11-08. 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