AS13359 — LEARN-CACHING-PEERING

AS13359 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The AS handle names the job rather than the owner: caching and peering.

What it's used for

• A research and education network. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, 74.200.189.0/24, fifteen observed BGP neighbours, and the IPv6 block 2607:f928:4::/48.

Notable

• The AS handle is LEARN-CACHING-PEERING.
• The block's netname is LEARN, registered to the network and its operations centre.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• Almost every AS handle is a company name or its initials. This one is a job description, which means the organisation runs more than one autonomous system and needed to tell them apart by function. Separating the peering and caching system from the main network lets it be advertised to exchange partners without exposing anything else.
• A single /24 against fifteen neighbours is the shape of that job exactly. The address space exists to give the caches and the peering routers somewhere to live; the value is entirely in the adjacencies.
• Research networks build these because content caches sit physically inside their campuses. Traffic that would otherwise cross paid transit is served from a rack down the hall, and the peering system is what makes the rest of the internet aware of it.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 74.200.189.0/24
• 2607:f928:4::/48

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS32097 WholeSale Internet, Inc.
• AS25091 IP-Max SA
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS971 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS26633 Texas Woman's University
• AS394001 Round Rock Independent School District
• AS18791 Texas Christian University
• AS22645 LEARN
• AS25963 Tarrant County College District
• AS33187 Sam Houston State University
• AS397289 Parker University

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS26633 Texas Woman's University
• AS394001 Round Rock Independent School District
• AS18791 Texas Christian University
• AS22645 LEARN
• AS14907 Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
• AS971 PureVoltage Hosting Inc.
• AS32097 WholeSale Internet, Inc.
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL
• AS25963 Tarrant County College District
• AS33187 Sam Houston State University
• AS397289 Parker University
• AS25091 IP-Max SA

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Dallas — Dallas, United States