Autonomous system
AS6559 NCIH
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
State of North Carolina
government legacy
NCIH is the autonomous system of the State of North Carolina's State Telecommunications Services, the network arm of the state's Department of Information Technology. The handle preserves the name of the North Carolina Information Highway, the state's long-running government network.
What it's used for
AS6559 carries traffic for North Carolina state government. It originates a large block of state-held address space, including several legacy /16s (152.31.0.0/16, 152.34.0.0/16, 149.168.0.0/16, 199.90.0.0/16, 204.211.0.0/16, 207.4.0.0/16) totalling roughly 410,000 IPv4 addresses. Reverse DNS resolves to state agencies, for example hosts under dhhs.nc.gov for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Notable
This is a government address, not an eyeball or hosting one: the users behind it are state agencies, their staff and their public-facing services. The unusually large IPv4 holding is a legacy of early state-government networking, when address space was easy to obtain in /16 units.
The AS was registered with ARIN in 1996, in line with the era when state networks were being consolidated into single routed backbones.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6559- Registry name
- NCIH
- Registrant
- State of NC - State Telecommunications Services
- Abuse contact
- iphostmaster@its.nc.gov
- Registered
- 1996-08-30
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere