AS7968 LOYOLA-UNIV-CHICAGO

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 example dns1.it.luc.edu and pollux2.it.luc.edu under the central IT zone, and hostnames under pub.luc.edu and ssl.luc.edu for 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.