Autonomous system
AS15318 MCGILL-AS
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
McGill University
education research infrastructure
A university announcing two hospitals, a research network, and a netname that labels the wrong octets.
What it's used for
- A university network carrying affiliated teaching hospitals. Ten IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6
/48announced from Canada, one hundred and forty-eight thousand addresses, through one observed neighbour.
Notable
- Two of the blocks are
/16allocations, from an era when universities were given space on that scale. - Two hospitals hold their own registrations inside this routing, each with a netname naming the institution, the province and the country.
- One block is registered to the provincial research network under a netname citing octets that do not match the block it labels.
- One
/24is named for guest access and the roaming federation used between institutions, so the registry states which range carries visitors. - Three of eighteen sampled addresses answered, each naming a hospital site and a research institute before the university's domain.
Interesting
- Naming the guest range in the registry is honest and useful, and it also tells anyone scanning which addresses belong to devices the institution does not control.
- The hospital reverse names identify the building from the address alone, which is exactly what an operator wants during an incident and rather more than a stranger needs.
- A netname pointing at the wrong octets is harmless until someone automates from it, at which point the block is attributed to a range it has nothing to do with.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS376 | Reseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Quebec (RISQ Inc.) | 839 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 148K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 11 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS15318- Registry name
- MCGILL-AS
- Registrant
- McGill University
- Abuse contact
- contact.ncs@mcgill.ca
- Registered
- 2005-08-09
- Last changed
- 2012-03-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- McGill University
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
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
- 86% valid · 12 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 15 authorising AS15318
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS15318
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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