Autonomous system
AS10277 Ministerio de Cultura y Educacion
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Ministerio de Cultura y Educacion
AS10277 is registered to Argentina's Ministerio de Cultura y Educación — the national education ministry, whose current public identity is educacion.gob.ar. The AS was allocated in 1997 through LACNIC and still carries the ministry's older legal name.
What it's used for
The ministry's own systems and internet presence: administrative networks, the public web and mail estate for national education services, and the connectivity that ties the ministry's offices together. The AS announces 7 IPv4 prefixes totalling 4,864 addresses and no IPv6 — a 168.83.80.0/20 plus six /24s from the surrounding 168.83.0.0/16, including outliers at 168.83.21.0/24 and 168.83.78.0/24 that sit outside the /20. That patchwork is a 1990s allocation history, not a design.
Notable
This is a government network. The routing shape is a single-homed stub: one observed BGP neighbour, an Argentine carrier providing upstream, and under 5,000 addresses. No transit role, no hosting business, no subscribers.
The classification worth care is government versus education. A ministry of education is not an education network operationally: this is not a campus and there are no students behind it. A university's own AS is education; the department that funds universities is government.
Interesting
The registered name is a historical artefact. Ministerio de Cultura y Educación was the department's name through part of the late twentieth century; it has been renamed and restructured repeatedly since. RIR records preserve the name in force on the day of allocation, so this entry is a fossil of 1997.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS16814 | NSS S.A. | 407 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 4.86K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AR | Argentina | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10277- Registry name
- 10277
- Registrant
- Ministerio de Cultura y Educacion
- Abuse contact
- tron@huapi.ba.ar
- Registered
- 1997-06-04
- Last changed
- 1997-06-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10277
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS10277
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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