AS214

AS214 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN to the Navy Network Information Center (NNIC), the U.S. Department of the Navy entity that administers routing and IP-address allocation for Navy facilities. It was allocated on 1988-07-12, placing it among the earliest entries in the IANA 16-bit AS Numbers registry (block 1–1876, assigned by ARIN). The number carries the DNIC (Defense Network Information Center) naming convention used across the Navy's ~90 ASNs and is one of a large family of low-numbered DoD allocations. The triage point for AS214 is that it is effectively dark today: every routing source consulted (RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools) agrees it announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, has zero visible peers, zero upstreams, and zero customers. RIPEstat reports 0 of 327 IPv4 RIS peers and 0 of 324 IPv6 RIS peers seeing it as of 2026-06-19. CAIDA ranks it 79,459 with an asnDegree of 0 across all dimensions and a singleton customer cone (the ASN itself, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses). The only historical routing trace is prefix 188.116.64.0/18, first seen 2009-12-05 and last seen 2010-03-16 — the ASN has been routing-dark since early 2010. RPKI posture is not assessable because there are no active originations and therefore no ROAs. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026 — not in Spamhaus DROP/SBL, CleanTalk, AbuseIPDB, or NANOG archives — which is structurally expected for a dormant government/military allocation with no attack surface. The NNIC organization itself remains administratively active in ARIN (admin contact record last touched 2026-02-12); abuse and registration contacts route through DISA-Columbus.

Operator

Navy Network Information Center (NNIC), U.S. Department of the Navy (ARIN handle AS214 / DNIC-AS-00214) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, ipinfo.io/AS214, bgp.he.net/AS214

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: arin), CAIDA (country ISO=US)

Allocated

1988-07-12 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event — a first-party RIR fact, NOT an IEEE date); RDAP record last changed 2011-07-05 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/214

ASN block

IANA 16-bit AS Numbers registry block 1–1876, assigned by ARIN [Confirmed] — RIPEstat as-overview

Org status

active U.S. federal government entity (Department of the Navy); ARIN admin contact record last updated 2026-02-12 (org remains active), while AS214 itself is dormant/not actively routed [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, ipinfo.io

Website

navy.mil (primary domain per ARIN/IPinfo records; no dedicated NNIC subdomain or standalone site found) [Likely] — ipinfo.io/AS214, ip2location.com/as214

Contacts

abuse / registration via disa.columbus.ns.mbx.arin-registrations@mail.mil (DISA-Columbus); registrant address 2465 Guadalcanal Road, Building 1265, Virginia Beach, VA 23459 [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder, ARIN RDAP entity vcard

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-19 — not in Spamhaus DROP/SBL, CleanTalk ASN blacklist, AbuseIPDB, or NANOG archives; expected for a dormant government/military allocation with no active prefixes and no attack surface

Network & routing

Network type

U.S. federal government / military — Department of the Navy internal network infrastructure; AS214 is one of ~90 ASNs held by NNIC under the DNIC naming convention [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, networksdb.io (NNIC), peeringdb.com/org/18365

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 IPv4 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses — RIPEstat routing-status / CAIDA AS Rank (2026-06)

Routing/peering

NOT announced — 0/327 IPv4 RIS peers and 0/324 IPv6 RIS peers seeing it; CAIDA asnDegree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); observed_neighbours 0; no PeeringDB entry for AS214 specifically [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, CAIDA, bgp.he.net

Historical routing

only trace is prefix 188.116.64.0/18 (16,384 addresses), origin AS214, first seen 2009-12-05, last seen 2010-03-16 — routing-dark since [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status

RPKI

not assessable — AS214 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate (rpki-validation skipped, no prefix to supply) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat rpki-validation

AS rank

79,459 (CAIDA AS Rank; seen=false, cliqueMember=false, ixp=null — not observed in the current global routing table) [Confirmed] — CAIDA asrank

Related ASNs

NNIC holds ~90 ASNs under the DNIC convention (e.g. AS22, AS84, AS219, AS256, AS257, AS768, AS2749, AS5058 among others) [Likely per third-party DB] — networksdb.io (NNIC), bgp.tools

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant legacy DoD/Navy ASN. RDAP status is active and the NNIC org is administratively current, but the number has carried no BGP announcements since early 2010. Clean, inactive ASN; community/forum corroboration is sparse, consistent with a low-profile military network rather than a data gap.