Autonomous system
AS1213 HEANET
Unclassified RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
HEAnet
education research nren legacy
HEAnet (HEANET) is Ireland's national education and research network (NREN), connecting the country's universities, institutes, schools, and research bodies.
What it's used for
- Backbone connectivity, internet access, and shared services for Irish education and research institutions.
Notable
- A national NREN serving the education sector, not a commercial ISP. It holds a large block of address space on behalf of connected institutions. The low AS number reflects an early RIPE-era allocation.
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
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - LAN1 | Dublin, Ireland | 185.6.36.16 |
| Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - LAN2 | Dublin, Ireland | 194.88.240.15 |
| Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - Cork | Cork, Ireland | 185.1.69.11 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 3 downstream and 21 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 1.84M addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IE | Ireland | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS1213- Registry name
- Asiera
- Registrant
- ASIERA-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@asiera.ie
- Registered
- 2002-01-16
- Last changed
- 2026-06-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Asiera
- Also known as
- HEAnet
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-HEANET- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.asiera.ie/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 94% valid · 17 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS1213
- ASPA
- 4 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 18 of 18 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS1213
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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