AS14348 — URI-AS

AS14348 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Three letters in the netname that mean one thing to a registry and something else entirely to everyone who works on the web.

What it's used for

• A state university's campus network. 65,536 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, 131.128.0.0/16, with one observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The block carries the netname URI, registered to University of Rhode Island.
• The AS handle is URI-AS.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
• The routing archive has carried it since the archive began.

Interesting

• URI is a collision with one of the web's most-used abbreviations. Netnames occupy their own namespace and nothing stops a university from taking three letters that already mean something else, because no software has to disambiguate them.
• One neighbour for an entire university is unusual: most campuses of this size hold at least two so that a single provider failing does not take teaching offline. A state institution reaching the internet through one shared education network is the likeliest arrangement, and it shows up here as a single adjacency.
• The block is announced whole, in one piece, with the address range starting exactly on a boundary. Nothing inside has ever needed to be routed on its own.
• Nothing answers a reverse lookup on the addresses sampled, so the block gives up no building and no department.

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

Announced prefixes

• 131.128.0.0/16

Upstream networks

• AS14325 OSHEAN, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS14325 OSHEAN, Inc.