AS12999 FESU Far Eastern Federal University

A university on 256 addresses, registered under a name so long it fills the AS handle.

What it's used for

• The campus network of Far Eastern Federal University, in Vladivostok. 256 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The entire inventory is 62.76.6.0/24, netname FESU.
• The registrant is recorded as "Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education 'Far Eastern Federal University'", quotation marks included.
• First observed in the routing archive in August 2000.
• Three addresses were sampled and none returned a name.

Interesting

• The netname is four bare letters with no country prefix and no date, the oldest registry style still in use here. Everything registered in this range after roughly 2000 carries at least a country code, so an unadorned acronym is itself a rough timestamp.
• The registrant field carries the institution's full legal form rather than its working name. State bodies register under the name on their founding documents, and the routing record inherits the bureaucracy verbatim; the university calls itself FEFU everywhere else.
• Two neighbours for a whole university is the national research network model: the campus connects to an academic backbone and reaches the wider internet through it, rather than buying transit directly. The AS number exists so the university's space stays its own across that handoff.
• A single /24 has held a university since 2000 without growing. Campus networks put their users behind private addressing, so the public allocation only ever needs to cover the servers.