Autonomous system
AS11105 SFU-AS
Education ARIN
Summary
Simon Fraser University
university education research legacy
SFU-AS is Simon Fraser University, the public research university in Burnaby, British Columbia. Every announced prefix is registered to an SFU handle (SFU-CA, SFU-207-23-192, NETBLK-SFUCSS, NET-SFU-EXT and others), and the reverse DNS is first-party throughout — sfu.ca. This is a campus network holding and using its own space.
What it's used for
Campus connectivity and research computing. The AS announces 19 IPv4 prefixes (~94,720 addresses), anchored on a legacy 142.58.0.0/16, plus IPv6 out of 2607:f8f0:690::/48. RIS observes only 1 neighbour, which is normal for a Canadian university: campuses connect through their provincial research network (BCNET in British Columbia) rather than buying commercial transit directly, so the whole institution reaches the internet through a single upstream relationship.
Notable
The reverse DNS reads like a campus floor plan. p207-023-192-005.wireless.sfu.ca and p207-023-160-005.wireless.sfu.ca are the campus Wi-Fi pools — two whole /19s of them, which is where most of the address count goes. border-p5.nat.sfu.ca is a NAT border host, ns-wtb-mine.its.sfu.ca sits with IT Services, and rcg-deploy2.dcr.sfu.ca belongs to research computing.
Interesting
206.12.120.0/21 answers as cloud.computecanada.ca — national research-computing infrastructure, part of Canada's shared advanced-research computing estate, hosted inside SFU's address space. A university AS is rarely just students and staff: it routinely carries national-scale research systems that happen to be physically sited on that campus, which is why address count is a poor proxy for enrolment and why "education" here covers workloads that look nothing like a lecture theatre.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS271 | BCNET | 1,284 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 19 prefixes · 95.74K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11105- Registry name
- SFU-AS
- Registrant
- Simon Fraser University
- Abuse contact
- hostmast@sfu.ca
- Registered
- 2007-05-11
- Last changed
- 2007-05-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 22 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS11105
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 22 of 22 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS11105
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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