AS688

AS688 (RECNET-AS) is a U.S. federal government autonomous system registered to the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Department of the Interior, and it currently announces zero prefixes. Multiple independent routing sources agree the AS has been fully withdrawn from the global routing table since late January 2025, even though its ARIN registration remains formally active.

The ASN was registered with ARIN on 1990-06-25 and last updated 2024-09-23. Historically it announced two IPv4 blocks tied to the Bureau's wide-area network — 137.77.0.0/17 and 140.215.0.0/16, roughly 98,304 addresses combined — but neither is visible in the current routing table.

CAIDA ranks AS688 at 79,459 with a customer cone limited to itself: zero prefixes, zero addresses. No upstreams, downstreams, or active peers appear in CAIDA's ASN-degree data or bgp.tools; the only documented BGP relationship is a historical peering with AS22284, another Department of the Interior ASN. No PeeringDB record exists for AS688 (404 on both the profile and API lookup), consistent with a non-peering internal government network rather than a commercial operator.

AS688 supports the Bureau of Reclamation's internal IT and WAN infrastructure — the agency manages dams, hydroelectric power, and wholesale water delivery across the western United States — rather than acting as a transit, hosting, or content network. The registrant address is the Bureau's IT Services Division in Denver, Colorado.

Exposure

No live routing means no directly reachable BGP-announced address space under AS688 today; any active Bureau of Reclamation traffic likely routes through a different, currently-announcing ASN.

Abuse signal

No notable public abuse reports, botnet listings, or NANOG/Spamhaus mentions were found for AS688 as of 2026-07-18; this is a sourced absence of evidence, not a verified clean rating from a dedicated threat-intel platform.

RPKI

Not assessable — zero originated prefixes means zero ROAs to validate (0 valid / 0 invalid per bgp.he.net).

Status caveat

ARIN's registration status is Active, which should not be conflated with live routing presence — the AS is registered but currently non-announcing.

Operator

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (ARIN org handle UBR-Z; AS name RECNET-AS) [Confirmed] — https://whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS688, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/688

Country / RIR

US, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/688

Allocated

1990-06-25 (ARIN RDAP autnum TOP-LEVEL registration event; corroborated by bgp.tools "Registered: June 25, 1990"); last changed 2024-09-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/688, https://bgp.tools/as/688

Org status

ARIN registration status Active; the agency itself is active and operating (usbr.gov live) though AS688 is not currently announcing any routes [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/688, https://www.usbr.gov/

IANA reference

none applicable [Unknown]

Security/abuse context

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-18 across AbuseIPDB, Spamhaus, and NANOG archive searches [Likely — absence of search hits, not a dedicated threat-intel clearance] — https://ipinfo.io/AS688, https://www.abuseipdb.com/, https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/botnet-controller-list/

Abuse contact

abuse@usbr.gov

Network & routing

Network type

federal government internal/enterprise network, not a commercial ISP or transit provider [Confirmed] — https://www.usbr.gov/, https://whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS688

Size / routing status

0 IPv4 and 0 IPv6 prefixes currently announced; not visible in the global routing table since 2025-01-31; historically announced 137.77.0.0/17 and 140.215.0.0/16 (~98,304 addresses combined) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS688, https://bgp.he.net/AS688

Customer cone / rank

CAIDA AS Rank 79459; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses [Confirmed] — https://asrank.caida.org/asns/688

Routing/peering

no current upstreams or peers (CAIDA asnDegree customer:0 peer:0 provider:0); one historical peer AS22284 (also Dept. of Interior) [Confirmed]; no PeeringDB entry exists for AS688

[Likely — absence-of-record] — https://asrank.caida.org/asns/688, https://bgp.he.net/AS688, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/688

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, no ROAs; bgp.he.net shows 0 valid / 0 invalid origins [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS688

Notable usage

supports Bureau of Reclamation IT/WAN infrastructure (the agency manages dams, hydroelectric power, and wholesale water delivery across the western U.S.); no evidence of transit, hosting, or CDN role [Confirmed] — https://www.usbr.gov/, https://ipinfo.io/AS688

Geo footprint

US; registrant address IT Services Division, P.O. Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225; CAIDA has no precise lat/long on file [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/688, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/688

Analyst note

RIR-active but routing-dormant since Jan 2025. The ARIN top-level autnum registration date (1990-06-25) is the true allocated_date; several nested contact/org-record dates present in the raw RDAP response (e.g. BORAB-ARIN POC 2015-02-20, BORWA-ARIN POC 2024-07-17, RINEY2-ARIN POC 2014-12-10, UBR-Z org record 2024-09-16) are decoys belonging to sub-records and were not used.