Unclassified

AS5972 United States Department of Defense (DoD)ASN lookup: IP ranges, prefixes and network type

AS5972 is the autonomous system number (ASN) announced by United States Department of Defense (DoD). It announces 343 prefixes, 1,864,192 IPv4 addresses in total. Every address inside those ranges is routed by this operator, which is what makes the number the shortest answer to who runs a given address.

AS5972 at a glance

Reference data for AS5972
OrganisationUnited States Department of Defense (DoD)
Autonomous systemAS5972
Network typeUnclassifiedThe registered name carries no indication either way, so nothing is claimed.
IPv4 prefixes343
IPv6 prefixes0
IPv4 addresses1,864,192Summed across every announced prefix. IPv6 is not counted; the numbers are meaningless at that scale.
In known VPN ranges0 of 343 prefixes
In known datacenter ranges0 of 343 prefixes

The last two rows are a second opinion, counted against the X4BNet VPN and datacenter range lists rather than read off the operator name. A network with most of its prefixes in the VPN list is carrying anonymised traffic whatever it calls itself.

Sample prefixes

The largest ranges United States Department of Defense (DoD) announces, biggest first. These are a sample and not the full routing table: 343 prefixes do not fit on a page, and the ones worth showing are the ones most traffic comes from.

The largest prefixes announced by AS5972
PrefixFamilyAddresses
164.248.0.0/14IPv4262,144
139.38.0.0/15IPv4131,072
214.78.0.0/15IPv4131,072
128.44.0.0/16IPv465,536
141.236.0.0/16IPv465,536
144.146.0.0/16IPv465,536
155.220.0.0/16IPv465,536
159.71.0.0/16IPv465,536
164.65.0.0/16IPv465,536
214.17.0.0/16IPv465,536
138.137.0.0/17IPv432,768
138.138.0.0/17IPv432,768

Live check

Look up an address on AS5972

The field is prefilled with 164.248.0.1, the first address of the largest range above. Change it for one from your own logs and you get the network, the operator and the verdict for that specific address.

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What AS5972 means for detection

Registry data does not say what kind of network United States Department of Defense (DoD) runs, and this page will not guess. Ownership alone cannot settle it: the name is the only clue an ASN carries about purpose, and this one carries none. A single address on it can still be classified, because that uses behaviour and range membership rather than the operator's name. Run one below and see what comes back.

The verdict for a single address is never settled by the ASN alone. It is the starting point, and IP Detection adds range membership, behaviour and history on top of it before it answers.

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