Autonomous system detail

AS96

Not announced

Operated by DNIC-AS-00096 - Headquarters, USAISC.

Summary

// analyst note
Same profile as AS94 — an old Army DNIC number, very likely not announcing; an origin in live BGP would warrant scrutiny. ARIN RDAP RegDate 1987-01-28 [Confirmed]. Dormancy assessed, not table-confirmed (confidence Medium).
// security note
NEUTRAL/DATED: no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-09; appears unannounced.
IPv4 prefixes
0
~0 addresses
IPv6 prefixes
0
—
Peer networks
0
0 up · 0 down
IANA block
1-1876
Assigned by ARIN
[ 01 ] — Context

About this ASN.

Updated  ·  Confidence: Medium

AS96 is a legacy DoD/DNIC allocation registered under ARIN to Headquarters, USAISC (the U.S. Army Information Systems Command), carrying the handle "DNIC-AS-00096" — a second USAISC DNIC number in this block alongside AS94, and part of the same HEADQU-3 org family as AS13, AS51, AS54, AS66, and AS83. AS96 appears in the NetworksDB "Headquarters, USAISC" assigned-AS list, and CAIDA AS Rank carries an AS96 entry labeled "Headquarters, USAISC," corroborating the holder. Routing status: it appears registered-but-dormant — no live announcements were confirmed this cycle, consistent with the DNIC-number pattern, though the dormancy is assessed rather than confirmed against a direct BGP-table snapshot (hence confidence Medium). For triage, treat AS96 the same as AS94: an old Army DNIC number very likely not announcing, where an origin in live BGP would warrant scrutiny. No notable public abuse signal was found as of June 2026.

Operator
Headquarters, USAISC (U.S. Army Information Systems Command; HEADQU-3 org family) [Confirmed] — NetworksDB / CAIDA AS Rank label / Potaroo
Country / RIR
US, ARIN [Confirmed]
Allocated
ARIN RDAP RegDate 1987-01-28 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP
Org status
active registration, dormant routing (assessed)

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-06-09; appears unannounced — bgp.tools

Network & routing

Network type
government / military (U.S. Army) [Confirmed]
Size
appears dormant — no live announcements confirmed this cycle (dormancy assessed, not table-confirmed) — Potaroo / bgp.tools (2026-06)
Routing/peering
none confirmed; RPKI n/a — bgp.tools
Notable usage
[historical/Likely] A second USAISC DNIC AS allocation (alongside AS94); CAIDA AS Rank carries an AS96 entry labeled "Headquarters, USAISC" — army.mil
Related ASNs
HEADQU-3 pool — AS13, AS51, AS54, AS66, AS83, AS94, AS1649 [Confirmed/Likely]
Analyst note
Same profile as AS94 — an old Army DNIC number, very likely not announcing; an origin in live BGP would warrant scrutiny. Dormancy assessed this cycle — recommend a live RDAP + BGP-table pull at publish time.
[ 02 ] — Announced prefixes

What this network routes.

0 prefixes total · RIPEstat data · cached, not real-time
// IPv4 prefixes0
No IPv4 prefixes announced.
// IPv6 prefixes0
No IPv6 prefixes announced.
[ 03 ] — Notable peers & upstreams

Who it talks to.

0 observed neighbours
Neighbour data unavailable from public BGP collectors.