AS10161 QIA-AS-KR QIA

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.