Autonomous system
AS7212 VANDERBILT - Vanderbilt University
Education ARIN
Summary
Vanderbilt University
education university research legacy
The campus network of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, run by the university's Information Technology Services group under the handle VANDERBILT.
What it's used for
- Connectivity for teaching, research, administration and residential campus life across the university and its associated medical and research facilities.
Notable
- The AS holds the legacy
129.59.0.0/16plus a handful of/24s and an IPv6/32(2607:8a00::/32). A dedicated Class B is standard for a research university that got its address space early. - The registered technical contact is a "Network Design and Engineering" group, i.e. an in-house campus network team rather than an outsourced provider.
Interesting
- The ASN was registered with ARIN in October 1996, in the same sequential run as several other US campuses and enterprises in the AS72xx range.
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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 2026-11-07, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 66.30K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7212- Registry name
- VANDERBILT
- Registrant
- Vanderbilt University
- Abuse contact
- dmca.agent@vanderbilt.edu
- Registered
- 1996-10-09
- Last changed
- 2016-05-13
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS7212
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS7212
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