Autonomous system
AS7968 LOYOLA-UNIV-CHICAGO - Loyola University Chicago
Education ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
Loyola University Chicago
education university research legacy
LOYOLA-UNIV-CHICAGO is the Autonomous System of Loyola University Chicago, a private Jesuit research university with campuses along Chicago's lakefront and in the Loop, plus a health sciences campus in Maywood.
What it's used for
- The university's campus network: student and staff access, residence halls, classrooms, labs and administrative systems.
- Loyola's own services. rDNS across the space is entirely
luc.edu— for exampledns1.it.luc.eduandpollux2.it.luc.eduunder the central IT zone, and hostnames underpub.luc.eduandssl.luc.edufor public-facing systems.
Notable
- The AS announces roughly 24,000 addresses out of
147.126.0.0/16, a legacy Class B assigned to the university, advertised as a set of /19s and /20s rather than one aggregate. - The space is institutional: an address here belongs to a campus machine, campus Wi-Fi client or university server, not to a residential broadband subscriber. Student traffic from dorms shows up here too, which is why a university AS can look "eyeball-ish" without being a consumer ISP.
Interesting
- The ASN was registered to Loyola in 1997 and has stayed with the university ever since — the low number is genuine early-internet pedigree, not a reissue.
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 2026-11-07, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 24.58K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7968- Registry name
- LOYOLA-UNIV-CHICAGO
- Registrant
- Loyola University Chicago
- Abuse contact
- coh1@luc.edu
- Registered
- 1997-03-07
- Last changed
- 1997-03-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Loyola University Chicago
- Also known as
- Loyola University of Chicago
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://www.luc.edu
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7968
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS7968
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