Autonomous system
AS6172 MUSD-INTERNET - Mesa Public Schools
Education ARIN
Summary
Mesa Public Schools
education legacy
MUSD-INTERNET belongs to Mesa Public Schools, the K-12 public school district serving Mesa, Arizona, and one of the largest districts in the state.
What it's used for
- Internet connectivity for district schools and administrative sites: classroom networks, student devices, and district services.
- About 32k IPv4 addresses, a footprint that matches a district running its own routed network across many campuses rather than buying managed service.
Notable
- An institutional education address, not a residential one. Traffic here originates from school buildings during the school day, which gives the space a distinctly bursty weekday profile.
- ARIN registered this ASN to the district in 2014, so the low number is a reassignment. There is no early-internet lineage behind it.
Interesting
- Large US school districts are a quietly significant class of AS operator. Federal E-Rate funding makes running real network infrastructure affordable at a scale that would otherwise be out of reach for a public agency.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-08, 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 · 32.77K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6172- Registry name
- MUSD-INTERNET
- Registrant
- Mesa Public Schools
- Abuse contact
- noc@mpsaz.org
- Registered
- 2014-05-27
- Last changed
- 2020-05-08
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6172
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6172
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: 455 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-09. 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