AS15323 — BSD405

AS15323 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Sixty-five thousand addresses for a school district, first announced in 2007.

What it's used for

• A public school district's network. A single IPv4 /16 announced from the United States, no IPv6, and two observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The block is a /16, the largest allocation size in common use, held by a district rather than a university or a carrier.
• Routing history for this number begins in 2007, well after allocations of that size had become hard to obtain.
• The netname compresses the district's name by dropping vowels from both words.
• The registrant and AS handle both carry the district's number, and the registrant includes a hash character before it, which few registry fields contain.
• Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A district on this scale runs a network per school, and the allocation makes sense if every classroom device was expected to have its own address. That expectation was reasonable when the space was requested and looks generous now.
• One route for the whole thing keeps the district's internal structure private. Nothing in the routing says which range belongs to which school.
• Publishing nothing in reverse is the right default for a network full of children's devices. There is no operational reason for outsiders to resolve a school laptop's address to a building.

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

Announced prefixes

• 162.78.0.0/16

Upstream networks

• AS11404 Wave Broadband
• AS10430 Washington State K-20 Telecommunications Network

Adjacent networks

• AS11404 Wave Broadband
• AS10430 Washington State K-20 Telecommunications Network