Autonomous system
AS6356 NERDCNET - University of Florida
Education ARIN
Summary
University of Florida
education university research legacy
NERDCNET is the University of Florida's network in Gainesville, Florida — the handle preserves the name of NERDC, the Northeast Regional Data Center, UF's long-running central computing organisation.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking for the University of Florida and, historically, for other institutions NERDC served as a shared data center.
- Announces a large block of legacy IPv4, consistent with an early and generous university allocation.
Notable
- The regional data centers were a distinctive feature of Florida's public higher-education system: a handful of campuses ran shared mainframe and network services for the rest of the state, and the ASN names still carry those labels long after the organisations were reorganised.
- UF is a research-intensive university, so a share of this traffic is science data moving over national research networks rather than ordinary campus browsing.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS11096 | FloridaNet | 421 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 41 prefixes · 132K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 45 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6356- Registry name
- NERDCNET
- Registrant
- University of Florida
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ufl.edu
- Registered
- 1996-03-18
- Last changed
- 2023-11-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 7% valid · 1 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS6356
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 87% registered · 13 of 15 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS6356
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 1,847 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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