Autonomous system
AS8076 HUD - Department of Housing and Urban Development
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
government legacy
HUD is the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the federal agency responsible for housing policy, fair-housing enforcement and the FHA mortgage insurance programme.
What it's used for
- HUD's own internet-facing infrastructure. All of its announced IPv4 comes out of
170.97.0.0/16, the /16 registered to the department at ARIN, and it also announces IPv6 from2620:0:c91::/48and2620:0:c92::/48.
Notable
- Only about 2,500 addresses are actually announced, in a dozen small /24s — a fraction of the /16 HUD holds. Federal agencies routinely announce far less space than they are registered for.
- A single observed BGP neighbour. Like most civilian federal agencies, HUD does not run a transit network; it buys connectivity and announces a thin slice of public-facing space.
- There are no reverse-DNS records on the announced prefixes, which is common for government networks that expose few services directly.
Interesting
- The
2620:0::/23range these IPv6 blocks sit in is ARIN's direct-assignment space, widely used by US institutions and agencies — so the IPv6 prefixes here look like any other US enterprise's, with nothing to mark them as federal.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS13979 | AT&T Enterprises, LLC | 699 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 2.82K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8076- Registry name
- HUD
- Registrant
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Abuse contact
- rachael.l.chow@hud.gov
- Registered
- 1997-03-31
- Last changed
- 2024-12-12
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8076
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 13 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS8076
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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