AS298

AS298 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN to Air Force Systems Networking, a U.S. Department of Defense / U.S. Air Force entity, with administrative authority delegated to DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) at its Columbus, Ohio facility. The AS name, RADC-LONEX-AS, encodes the ASN's historical origin: RADC stands for the Rome Air Development Center at Griffiss AFB, New York — a USAF command, control, and communications research laboratory renamed Rome Laboratory in 1991 — and "LONEX" most likely refers to a research/experimental network operated there. The key triage point for AS298 is that it is effectively dormant today: every routing source consulted (RIPEstat, CAIDA AS Rank) agrees it announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes, has zero visible BGP peers, zero upstreams, zero customers, and no observed neighbours. RIPEstat's routing history shows the ASN last originated a route in January 2003 (prefix 192.67.93.0/24), having first been seen in August 2000, and it has announced nothing since. Its CAIDA AS rank of 79,459 sits near the bottom of the global ranking, reflecting complete routing inactivity, and its customer cone is a singleton (the ASN itself, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses). RPKI posture cannot be assessed because there are no active originations and therefore no ROAs. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026 — not in Spamhaus, CleanTalk, Qrator Radar, AbuseIPDB, or NANOG archives — consistent with a clean, dormant ASN held by a U.S. government operator. Note: AS298 is NOT Internap (Internap's primary ASN is AS29791); any reference to AS298 as Internap is an error.

Operator

Air Force Systems Networking (U.S. DoD / U.S. Air Force; ARIN org handle 7ESG; admin/registration via DISA-Columbus, Whitehall, OH) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/298

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP; RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: arin)

Allocated

1989-06-14 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, NOT an IEEE date — IEEE publishes no ASN registration dates); last changed 2009-05-05 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum top-level events

Org status

U.S. federal government entity (DoD / U.S. Air Force); not commercial or non-profit; registration maintained by DISA; ASN dormant since at least 2009 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, en.ipshu.com/asn/298

Contacts

admin DISA-Columbus (REGIS10-ARIN), 300 North James Road, Whitehall, OH 43213; abuse disa.columbus.ns.mbx.arin-registrations@mail.mil; +1-844-347-2457 ext. 2 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/298

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-27 — not in Spamhaus, CleanTalk (empty metrics), Qrator Radar (0 hijacks/leaks/bogons), AbuseIPDB, or NANOG archives; dormant ASN with no routed space to generate abuse [Confirmed for Qrator/CleanTalk; Likely for Spamhaus/AbuseIPDB/NANOG] — radar.qrator.net/as/298, cleantalk.org/blacklists/as298

Network & routing

Network type

U.S. government / military network (Air Force command-control-communications heritage); AS298 is legacy/inactive — Air Force active routing runs under other ASNs [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP, en.ipshu.com/asn/298

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 RIS peers seeing it (0/323 v4, 0/321 v6); CAIDA degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0); 0 observed neighbours; no upstreams or peers visible in any source [Confirmed]. No PeeringDB peering points, facilities, or contacts (org record last updated 2018)

[Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, CAIDA AS Rank, peeringdb.com/org/20118

Routing history

first seen 2000-08-18 (prefix 155.244.0.0/16), last seen 2003-01-31 (prefix 192.67.93.0/24); nothing announced since [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status

RPKI

not assessable — AS298 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate [Unknown] — RIPEstat rpki-validation skipped (no prefix)

Notable usage

AS name RADC-LONEX-AS reflects the Rome Air Development Center (Griffiss AFB, NY; renamed Rome Laboratory 1991), a USAF command/control/communications research lab; "LONEX" likely an associated research network [Likely] — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Laboratory, en.ipshu.com/asn/298

Registrant address

501 East Moore Dr., Bldg 884, Rm 1100, Gunter Annex, Maxwell AFB, AL 36114, United States [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/298 registrant vCard

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant legacy military ASN; WHOIS resolves to Air Force Systems Networking / DISA, but the ASN has not routed since 2003. Clean, inactive ASN. AS298 is NOT Internap (Internap = AS29791) — correct any such mislabel.