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Autonomous system

AS8159 KANSASNET

Unclassified APNIC

IPv4 addresses 7.68K 9 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

KansasNet / Fox Business Systems

United States · AI-generated

isp enterprise legacy

The Autonomous System of KansasNet (KANSASNET), the internet arm of Fox Business Systems of Manhattan, Kansas — one of the first ISPs in that part of the state, founded out of a computer-services business in the 1980s.

What it's used for

  • Regional internet access and hosting across Kansas, announced almost entirely from its own legacy ARIN /19 (KANSASNET-NETBLK1).
  • Business, municipal and institutional connectivity — the rDNS in the block resolves to customer names such as a city government (mail.ci.manhattan.ks.us), a grain co-operative, a mechanical contractor, and hosted mail on hosting.kansas.net.

Notable

  • Despite the "ISP" framing, the observable space is static business and organisational assignments, not consumer subscriber pools. Only isolated DSL-style names appear.
  • Parts of the /19 carry ideatek.com rDNS — a separate Kansas fibre operator — and one announced /24 is registered to an unrelated Kansas manufacturer. Some of the space is delegated to downstream networks and should not all be attributed to KansasNet itself.

Interesting

  • The AS name pairs the ISP brand with the parent computer-services company, a 1990s pattern where the local PC shop became the town's first internet provider.

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

Full topology · Graph

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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS19504WTC Communications, Inc.660

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 9 prefixes · 7.68K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America9

Registry

Allocation record

APNIC · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
APNIC
Handle
AS8159
Registry name
KANSASNET
Registrant
KansasNet / Fox Business Systems
Abuse contact
jlund@kansas.net
Registered
1997-05-05
Last changed
1997-05-05
Allocation
assigned

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
ROAs
0 authorising AS8159
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
90% registered · 9 of 10 announcements 1 other origin
Route objects
14 naming AS8159

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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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

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