Autonomous system
AS11032 UQ
Education ARIN
Summary
Université du Québec
education university research legacy
UQ is the Université du Québec, the province-wide public university network whose constituent establishments span Montréal, Québec City, Trois-Rivières, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Gatineau and beyond. The AS carries the university system's own address space.
What it's used for
Campus and inter-campus connectivity for the UQ network. RIS observes 16 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying 7,936 addresses, no IPv6, and a single observed BGP neighbour — one upstream, which for a Canadian university means the provincial research and education network rather than a commercial carrier.
Reverse DNS is entirely first-party and reads like a campus: smtp.rruq.ca and poste133.rruq.ca (the UQ telecommunications network), comix-3348.uqss.uquebec.ca, Amnesix.UQSS.UQuebec.CA. Named institutional hosts under the university's own domains — mail servers, workstations, service machines. Nothing here looks like customer or hosting space.
Notable
The registrant list is a small history of Canadian academic addressing: UQUEBEC-CA holds the modern 207.162.32.0/20, while the older /24s carry handles like UQUEBEC1, UQUEBEC2, UQUEBEC7, NETBLK-UQUEBEC-8, UQSS-IP-NET and — best of all — UQX25-IPNET, a block whose name still records the X.25 era it was allocated in. Every registrant is the university itself; the fragmentation is age, not third-party space.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS376 | Reseau dInformations Scientifiques du Quebec RISQ Inc. | 653 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 7.94K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11032- Registry name
- UQ
- Registrant
- Universite du Quebec
- Abuse contact
- mahrez.kebieche@uquebec.ca
- Registered
- 2005-10-28
- Last changed
- 2013-01-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 16 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS11032
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 16 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 38 naming AS11032
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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