AS468

AS468 (AFCONC-BLOCK1-AS) is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN as part of a single contiguous block spanning AS379 through AS508, assigned to the U.S. Air Force's internal networking infrastructure. ARIN's RDAP record lists the registrant as "Air Force Systems Networking," with day-to-day registration administration handled by DISA Columbus under the registrant group handle REGIS10-ARIN, addressed to 300 North James Road, Whitehall, Ohio — a Defense Information Systems Agency facility, not the Air Force unit itself. The underlying organization, per ARIN entity 7ESG, is headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base–Gunter Annex in Montgomery, Alabama, matching CAIDA's independent geolocation of the ASN to central Alabama (32.41°N, 86.25°W). Routing data shows AS468 is a small, non-transit government stub network: it originates exactly one IPv4 prefix, 199.124.118.0/23 (512 addresses), announces no IPv6 space, and connects to the global routing table through a single upstream, AS27064 (DoD Network Information Center), with zero settlement-free peers and zero downstream customers. CAIDA ranks it 54,406th globally by AS rank, reflecting its minimal footprint. The block-level ARIN registration event dates to August 4, 1989, consistent with sibling ASNs in the same 379–508 range that all carry the identical AFCONC-BLOCK1-AS registrant label. No public abuse signal, hijack incident, or NANOG/community discussion of AS468 was located as of July 2026.

Operator

Air Force Systems Networking (U.S. Air Force/DoD); ARIN registration administered by DISA Columbus (registrant group REGIS10-ARIN), 300 North James Road, Whitehall, OH; registrant org entity 7ESG headquartered at Maxwell AFB–Gunter Annex, Montgomery, AL

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/468, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/7ESG

Country / RIR

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

Allocated

1989-08-04 (ARIN RDAP top-level autnum registration event, block AS379–AS508 that contains AS468 — a first-party RIR registration fact, recorded per instructions rather than nulled); last changed 2008-06-06 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/468

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP autnum status "active"; registrant entity REGIS10-ARIN status "validated", last changed 2026-02-12) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/468

Contacts

disa.columbus.ns.mbx.arin-registrations@mail.mil (DISA-Columbus abuse/administrative/technical contact) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/REGIS10-ARIN

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-09 — not in Spamhaus DROP/ASN-DROP, Cisco Talos, or NANOG archives; AbuseIPDB's check-block page returned HTTP 403 and could not be directly verified

Network & routing

Network type

government/military stub AS (single-homed, non-transit); AS Name handle AFCONC-BLOCK1-AS [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS468, https://ipinfo.io/AS468

Size

1 IPv4 prefix, 199.124.118.0/23 (512 addresses); 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 512 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS468, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/468

Routing/peering

single upstream AS27064 (DoD Network Information Center); 0 settlement-free peers, 0 customers (CAIDA degree provider=1/peer=0/customer=0); IPv4 visible to 325/326 RIS peers, IPv6 not announced (0/321) [Confirmed] — https://asrank.caida.org/asns/468, https://stat.ripe.net/AS468

RPKI

Unknown — RIPEstat's rpki-validation endpoint was skipped in this fetch (requires a --prefix parameter); no ROA validation state was retrieved for 199.124.118.0/23 [Unknown] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS468

Notable usage

small, low-traffic, non-public-facing DoD/Air Force administrative stub network; not a transit or content network [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS468, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/468

Related ASNs

part of the AFCONC-BLOCK1-AS block, AS379–AS508, registered as one contiguous ARIN allocation; sibling ASNs (e.g. AS416, AS486) carry the identical registrant label [Confirmed] — https://whois.ipip.net/AS416, https://whois.ipip.net/AS486

Analyst note

The RDAP object returned for AS468 is a block-level record (handle "AS379", startAutnum 379, endAutnum 508) because ARIN registered the entire 379–508 range as one legacy DoD allocation — expected ARIN behavior for this block, not a lookup error. The 1989-08-04 registration date is therefore the block's allocation date and applies to AS468 as a member of that block; it is recorded as allocated_date per the RIR-fact rule, not nulled as a "database artifact."