AS686

AS686 (OSD-GW-AS) is a dormant legacy ASN registered under ARIN to the 7th Communications Group/GNE, a U.S. Department of Defense-affiliated entity with a registered Pentagon Room 1B471, Washington, DC address. Registry status is active, but the ASN is not currently visible anywhere in the global routing table.

ARIN's autnum record carries a top-level registration event dated 1990-06-21, with the record itself last changed 1991-01-10. The registrant organization, 7th Communications Group/GNE (ARIN org handle 7CG-3), was created the same day and last updated in ARIN's system on 2012-10-10 — administrative housekeeping, not a recent operational change.

Every routing source consulted agrees the ASN is unrouted. RIPEstat shows zero announced IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes, zero of 325 v4 and zero of 321 v6 RIS peers observing it, and zero observed neighbours. CAIDA's AS Rank places it at 79,459 with a customer cone of just itself — zero customers, zero peers, zero providers — and no PeeringDB record exists; a direct query for AS686 returns HTTP 404.

The registered address and organization name point to a Pentagon-based Office of the Secretary of Defense communications function, though no first-party document confirms the OSD/GW acronym expansion or ties the current registration to any specific present-day DISA or GDIT network contract. This reads as a DoD-internal network registration rather than a commercial operator with a public website or peering policy.

Operator

7th Communications Group/GNE (ARIN org handle 7CG-3), U.S. DoD-affiliated [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/686

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/686

Allocated

1990-06-21 (ARIN autnum top-level registration event); last changed 1991-01-10 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/686

IANA Reference

blank (none applicable) [Unknown]

Abuse contact

ARIN POC handle WSW11-ARIN — an individual mailbox on a defunct 1990s Sprint International domain, not republished here; flagged unvalidated by ARIN since 2010-06-23

Network & routing

Network type

military/government gateway network, not a commercial transit or content network [Likely] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/7CG-3

Routing status

dormant — 0 IPv4/IPv6 prefixes announced, 0 RIS peers (0/325 v4, 0/321 v6), 0 observed neighbours [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status; https://bgp.he.net/AS686; https://bgp.tools/as/686

Peering

no published policy; no PeeringDB record (peeringdb.com/asn/686 returns HTTP 404, checked directly) [Confirmed absence]

CAIDA rank / cone

AS rank 79,459; customer cone = itself only (0 prefixes, 0 addresses); degree total/customer/peer/provider all 0 [Confirmed] — CAIDA ASRank API, asn=686

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, no ROAs; RIPEstat rpki-validation requires a prefix and was skipped [Confirmed]

Notable usage

registered address ties to a Pentagon/OSD-affiliated context; no first-party statement of current operational usage exists [Likely] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/7CG-3

Registered address

7CG/GNE, Pentagon Room 1B471, Washington, DC 20330 [Confirmed] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/org/7CG-3

Current relationship to DISA/GDIT infrastructure

Unknown — no first-party source ties AS686 specifically to either entity [Unknown]

Official website

Unknown / none identified [Unknown]