AS469

AS469 is a legacy autonomous system number registered under ARIN as part of a large contiguous range block, AFCONC-BLOCK1-AS, spanning AS379 through AS508 and held entirely by a single registrant: "Air Force Systems Networking," a U.S. Air Force organization administered through DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), with the registrant's physical address on file as Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, and the abuse/administrative/technical point of contact registered to DISA-Columbus in Whitehall, Ohio. This is a government/military ASN block, not a commercial ISP or enterprise network, and it has no independent public operator website, PeeringDB profile, or peering-policy page — consistent with how DoD-administered ASN blocks are typically run. Every routing data source consulted (RIPEstat as-overview, announced-prefixes, routing-status, and CAIDA AS Rank) agrees AS469 is currently unannounced: zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes originated, zero BGP peers observed across either the IPv4 or IPv6 RIS peer sets, zero upstreams, and a customer cone limited to the ASN itself with zero addresses. CAIDA ranks it 79,459 globally, near the bottom, reflecting total routing dormancy. RPKI posture cannot be assessed because there are no announced prefixes to validate against ROAs. No notable public abuse signal was found in a search-based check of Spamhaus, ipapi.is, and general abuse/hijack sources, consistent with a dormant, currently-unrouted number holding no active traffic surface.

Operator

Air Force Systems Networking (U.S. Air Force / DISA, ARIN registrant handle 7ESG); range block "AFCONC-BLOCK1-AS" covers AS379–AS508 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/469

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: arin), https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=469

Allocated

1989-08-04 (ARIN RDAP top-level "registration" event on the autnum object covering the AS379–AS508 block, which includes AS469); last changed 2008-06-06 [Confirmed — agreed by A1 raw RDAP, A2, A3, A4] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/469

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP autnum status flag), reflecting registry allocation status rather than routing visibility [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/469

Contacts

disa.columbus.ns.mbx.arin-registrations@mail.mil (roles: abuse, administrative, technical) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=469

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-09 in search-based checks of Spamhaus DROP/ASN-DROP, ipapi.is "Most Abusive ASNs," and general hijack/abuse searches; consistent with a dormant, zero-prefix ASN with no active traffic surface [Likely — search-based, not an exhaustive dataset query] — https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/do-not-route-or-peer/, https://ipapi.is/most-abusive-asn.html

Network & routing

Network type

government/military network infrastructure (U.S. Air Force, administered via DISA); not a commercial operator [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/469

Size / routing

NOT announced — 0 IPv4 and 0 IPv6 prefixes originated; 0/326 RIS peers seeing it on v4, 0/321 on v6; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses; CAIDA AS Rank 79,459

[Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/routing-status/data.json?resource=469, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/469

Peering

no PeeringDB profile found (404 at peeringdb.com/asn/469); 0 observed peers/upstreams in CAIDA asnDegree; no public peering-policy page [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/469, https://bgp.he.net/AS469

RPKI

not assessable — AS469 announces no prefixes, so there are no ROAs to validate against [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/469

Notable usage

no independently verifiable notable public usage found; an unverified secondary-source association with the "754th Electronic Systems Group" could not be corroborated against ARIN RDAP or any primary source and is excluded per no-fabrication rule [Unknown] — (no citable primary source)

Geo footprint

US (registrant HQ Maxwell AFB, AL; abuse/tech POC Whitehall, OH); CAIDA's lat/long fields are placeholder zeros, not real geolocation [Confirmed for country; Likely for lack of finer geo] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/469, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/469

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant, currently-unrouted legacy ASN inside a large single-registrant USAF/DISA range block (AS379–AS508); no independent operator web presence exists to research because this is not a commercial entity. All routing/topology angles (RIPEstat + CAIDA) agree on zero announcements, zero peers, zero cone.