AS8 — RICE-AS - Rice University

AS8 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 462,336 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One of the oldest allocations on the internet (RICE-AS), serving Rice University in Houston, Texas.

What it's used for

• Campus, research, and administrative networking for the university.

Notable

• A single-digit AS number reflects how early Rice connected, handed out sequentially in the internet's first years. An institutional network, not a commercial ISP.

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

Announced prefixes

• 128.42.0.0/16
• 168.2.0.0/15
• 168.4.0.0/14
• 192.136.144.0/22
• 192.136.148.0/23
• 192.225.16.0/21
• 2604:5e80::/32

Upstream networks

• AS302 Baylor College of Medicine
• AS4557 Rice University
• AS40187 GiGstreem
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS133317 srinagar Net tech P ltd

Downstream networks

• AS1700 Rice University
• AS25944 Society of Young Enterprise Engineers Ltd.

Adjacent networks

• AS302 Baylor College of Medicine
• AS4557 Rice University
• AS1700 Rice University
• AS40187 GiGstreem
• AS2914 NTT America, Inc.
• AS133317 srinagar Net tech P ltd
• AS25944 Society of Young Enterprise Engineers Ltd.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 1 invalid and 16 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 88% of announcements registered; 1,874 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-322337, AS-BCMI1, AS-CHAT, AS-CTBC-CUSTOMERS76, AS-HURRICANE, AS-INCAPSULA:AS-SET_STG, AS-LEARN-I2PX, AS-RICE, AS-SETG, AS-SETG-RE, AS2914:AS-65045, AS2914:AS-US, AS2914:AS-US-V6, AS302:AS-BCMI1, AS302:AS-CHAT, AS4557:AS-SETG, AS4557:AS-SETG-RE.