Autonomous system
AS10161 QIA-AS-KR QIA
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
QIA
government south-korea unconfirmed-holder
QIA-AS-KR is a small South Korean autonomous system registered simply as QIA. The strongest reading of that abbreviation in a Korean context is the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (검역본부), the national quarantine and inspection body under the agriculture ministry, which uses the qia.go.kr domain.
What it's used for
- On the balance of evidence, a single public-sector office network: the agency's own web presence and administrative systems, single-sited and NATed behind a small public block.
Notable
The identification is deliberately hedged, because a three-letter handle is evidence in neither direction and the registry gives no expanded legal name here. What the pack does settle is the role. There is exactly one announced IPv4 prefix, 211.241.91.0/24 — 256 addresses — and two observed BGP neighbours, with no IPv6. That is a dual-homed end site: it takes transit from two upstreams for resilience and announces one legacy /24 back. Nothing about it can be an access network (there is no space to hand out), a hosting provider (a /24 is not a product) or a carrier (two adjacencies is not a peering estate). Whoever the holder turns out to be, this AS exists so one organisation's public services keep a stable address block across two providers.
The .go.kr association behind the QIA abbreviation is what tips it to government rather than business, and it is recorded here at low confidence precisely because the routing evidence alone cannot distinguish the two.
Interesting
- The quarantine agency in its current form dates from a 2011 merger, so the AS and its /24 almost certainly predate the name now attached to them.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-23, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10161- Registry name
- QIA-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 2000-09-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10161
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS10161
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere