Autonomous system
AS7950 HC-AS
Education ARIN
Summary
Holland College
education university legacy
HC-AS is the Autonomous System of Holland College, the public community college of Prince Edward Island, based in Charlottetown. It carries the college's campus network.
What it's used for
- Campus internet access for Holland College students, staff and labs across its PEI campuses and training centres.
- The college's own public-facing services (its
hollandc.pe.caandhollandcollege.compresence, learning systems, administration). - Multihoming to regional Canadian upstreams rather than a single provider.
Notable
- The AS announces
142.87.0.0/16— a full legacy Class B, registered to the college in 1993, back when a /16 was the standard unit handed to an institution. That is a very large allocation relative to the size of the school today, which is typical of pre-CIDR education blocks. - The address space is institutional, not eyeball: addresses here belong to campus machines, Wi-Fi and lab networks, not to home broadband subscribers. Traffic from this AS is best read as "someone on a college network".
Interesting
- Holland College is a college rather than a research university, which makes an ARIN Class B and an early AS number a slightly unusual pairing. Both are artifacts of how generously address space was assigned in the early 1990s, not a measure of network size.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7950- Registry name
- HC-AS
- Registrant
- Holland College
- Abuse contact
- gmermuys@hollandcollege.com
- Registered
- 1997-02-27
- Last changed
- 2022-07-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 9 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS7950
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS7950
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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