Autonomous system
AS15948 ICE/HT fundamental and technological research
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
ICE/HT
research education infrastructure
The one answering host is named after a branch of chemistry.
What it's used for
- A research institute's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from Greece, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through a single observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The holder string carries a slash in the middle of its initials, then a lower-case description of what the institute studies, with no company or legal form anywhere.
- The AS handle drops the slash and adds the parent research foundation's short name.
- All three blocks share one netname, the initials without the slash, and one registrant, those initials followed by the letters for a network operations centre.
- Nine addresses were queried and one answered, with a scientific process as the host label, then the institute, then the foundation, then the country code.
- Three prefixes across two ranges, behind a single upstream.
Interesting
- The name places the machine in an organisation chart and a research programme at once: four labels going from what the machine works on, through the institute, to the foundation that funds it. Nothing in it says what the machine is, which is the opposite of how commercial networks name things.
- Research institutes almost always sit behind one upstream, because their connectivity comes from a national academic network rather than a market. Redundancy is somebody else's problem, one layer up.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS5408 | National Infrastructures for Research and Technology S.A. | 186 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GR | Greece | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15948- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- FORTHNETGR-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@iceht.forth.gr
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS15948
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS15948
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: 454 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-11-14. 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