Autonomous system
AS10972 NF-CANET2
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Memorial University — NF CA*net 2 gigaPOP
education research legacy
NF-CANET2 is registered to Memorial University of Newfoundland as the Newfoundland gigaPOP for CA*net 2, the second-generation Canadian national research and education backbone. It exists as an interconnect point in the research-network topology rather than as a network that carries its own address space.
What it's used for
The routing tells an unusual but coherent story: RIS observes no originated prefixes at all (0 IPv4, 0 IPv6) yet 4 observed neighbours. The AS is present in the BGP graph without announcing any space of its own. That is exactly the shape of a gigaPOP or regional interconnect AS: its job is to be an aggregation and peering point where a province's universities and research institutions meet the national NREN backbone, with the actual address space originated by the member institutions' own ASes.
CA*net 2 was the mid-to-late-1990s CANARIE-operated national research backbone, built as a set of regional gigaPOPs (one per province or region) rather than a single flat network. Memorial University, as the province's principal research institution, took the Newfoundland and Labrador gigaPOP role, and this ASN is the artifact of that architecture.
Notable
- An AS with zero originated prefixes and non-zero neighbours is genuinely rare and often mistaken for a dormant or unrouted number. This one is not dormant: it is participating in the routing graph, just not as an origin.
- Because it announces nothing, this AS cannot be geolocated or sized from routing data. The country here comes from the registration, not from the inventory.
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, 3 downstream and 4 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS6509 | CANARIE Inc | 7 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10972- Registry name
- NF-CANET2
- Registrant
- Memorial University, NF CAnet 2 gigaPOP
- Abuse contact
- toddf@mun.ca
- Registered
- 1998-02-18
- Last changed
- 2014-01-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS10972
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS10972
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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