AS567

AS567 is registered with ARIN to "Los Nettos" and identifies a Southern California regional research-and-education (R&E) network founded in 1988 by a group of academic networking pioneers — Danny Cohen and Jon Postel of USC-ISI, Charles Seitz of Caltech, Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA, and Richard Kaplan of USC — with first operations beginning that December linking ISI, UCLA, USC, and Caltech nodes. The consortium is administered day-to-day by USC Information Technology Services and today connects six Southern California member institutions, including Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, JPL, Loyola Marymount University, Occidental College, and USC, plus additional associates, to CENIC/CalREN, Internet2, ESnet, NASA NREN, and DREN. Live BGP measurement shows AS567 is a small but active network: it originates exactly one IPv4 /24 (130.152.185.0/24) and no IPv6 space, sits at CAIDA ASRank 1937 globally, and carries a customer cone of 15 downstream ASNs. Its single upstream is CENIC (AS2152). The organization publicly advertises a liberal peering policy at three Los Angeles-area exchange points, and has hosted NANOG community events, reflecting an established, low-risk academic operator with no indexed abuse history.

Operator

Los Nettos Regional Network, a nonprofit consortium administered by USC Information Technology Services [Confirmed] — https://losnettos.net/subpage-1/, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/567

RIR / country

ARIN, US [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/567

Allocated / last changed

allocated 1990-05-18 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level "registration" event); last changed 2012-03-20 (autnum top-level "last changed" event) — corroborated by three independent angles (RDAP raw record, operator research, routing research); entity/POC-level dates (e.g. 1998, 2003, 2026) are decoys and correctly excluded

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/567

IANA reference

none applies — ASN allocation records carry no RFC citation [Unknown/N-A]

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found for AS567 as of 2026-07-11 — checked Spamhaus ASN-DROP and NANOG mailing-list archives, no hits

Network & routing

Network type

regional R&E network serving Southern California universities, research facilities, and associates; links to CENIC/CalREN, Internet2, ESnet, NASA NREN, and DREN via a high-capacity optical network [Confirmed] — https://losnettos.net/subpage-1/

Routing footprint

1 IPv4 prefix announced (130.152.185.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes, as of 2026-07-11 — agreed by RIPEstat live measurement and bgp.tools [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status API, https://bgp.tools/as/567

CAIDA rank / customer cone

global AS rank 1937; customer cone 15 ASNs, 234 prefixes, 1,079,568 addresses (cone size, distinct from directly announced space) [Confirmed] — CAIDA ASRank API for AS567

Upstream

CENIC/CalREN (AS2152), CAIDA reports 2 provider relationships [Confirmed for AS2152 via bgp.tools; Likely for the second provider] — https://bgp.tools/as/567, CAIDA ASRank API

Peering policy

publicly liberal; eligibility requires participation on one of three LA-area exchanges — Pacific Wave, Any2, or CIIX/LAIIX — via a web-based Peering Request form; no published traffic-volume threshold [Confirmed] — https://losnettos.net/the-network/peering/

RPKI

no ROA coverage found for AS567's announced prefix (status Unknown/Not Covered, not Invalid); single-source finding, RIPEstat's prefix-specific rpki-validation check was not run this pass [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS567

Geo footprint

single-metro, Los Angeles, CA (CAIDA geolocation matches the USC-registered RDAP address) [Confirmed] — CAIDA ASRank API, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/567

Related ASNs

Los Nettos also appears to hold AS226, per third-party BGP peer data, alongside AS567 under the same consortium — the relationship between the two ASN registrations has not been independently confirmed against ARIN org records [Likely] — https://bgp.tools/as/567, https://bgpview.io/asn/567

ASN / registry name

AS567, registered as "ASN-LNET-AS" ("Los Nettos") [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/567

Consortium founding

founded 1988 by Danny Cohen, Jon Postel (USC-ISI), Charles Seitz (Caltech), Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA), and Richard Kaplan (USC); first operations December 1988 linking ISI, UCLA, USC, and Caltech [Confirmed] — https://losnettos.net/subpage-1/subpage-2/

Peers/customers

bgp.tools' flat "peers" table lists AS226 (a second/legacy Los Nettos ASN), AS4 and AS47 (USC), AS3659 (Claremont University Consortium), AS2153 (CENIC), AS127 (JPL), AS25789 (Loyola Marymount University), and AS14486 (Occidental College); CAIDA's relationship model classifies these as 7 customers and 0 settlement-free peers — a terminology mismatch between sources, not a contradiction

[Likely] — https://bgp.tools/as/567

Community presence

hosted a NANOG "On the Road" event on 2014-05-20; active, established participant in the NANOG community [Confirmed] — https://losnettos.net/2014/04/21/los-nettos-to-host-nanog-on-the-road-event-may-20-2014/