AS7800 ALLINA-HEALTH-SYSTEM-INC

ALLINA-HEALTH-SYSTEM-INC is the network of Allina Health, a non-profit hospital

and clinic system headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

What it's used for

• Enterprise networking for a large healthcare provider: hospitals, clinics, corporate offices, and the internet-facing edge of its clinical and patient systems.
• Announces the legacy 167.177.0.0/16 plus a small ARIN /24; the reverse DNS that exists is Allina's own infrastructure on allina.com rather than any customer-facing service.

Notable

• A hospital system's AS is an enterprise network, not a service provider. Nothing in this space is subscriber or hosting address space, and the handful of public hosts are edge services (DNS, mail, remote access) in front of a private clinical network.
• Registered with ARIN in January 1997, the same day as the organisation record — an original allocation to a holder that still has it.

Interesting

• Healthcare systems were unusually early to hold their own address space and ASNs, because linking hospitals, imaging and labs across a metro area required wide-area routing before most enterprises needed it.