Autonomous system
AS16214 CERIST
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
C.E.R.I.S.T.
research education infrastructure
The holder field is one dotted acronym, written twice, joined by a hyphen.
What it's used for
- A national research centre's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Algeria, no IPv6, eight thousand one hundred and ninety-two addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The holder field is a six-letter acronym with a full stop after every letter, then a hyphen, then the same acronym again. Nothing distinguishes the two halves.
- The AS handle is that acronym with the stops removed, which is the only form in the record a reader can type without guessing.
- The block's netname is not a name at all. It is an organisation handle: three letters for organisation, an abbreviation of the registrant, a serial number, and the registry's own name appended.
- The registrant is the national academic and research network, spelled out in full, and it is the only contact listed.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Eight thousand addresses in one unbroken block, held since early in the registry's life, is what a country's first allocation looks like. Research networks were usually the ones asking, because they were the ones already connected.
- A netname that is really a database handle happens when the registry generates the record and nobody edits it afterwards. It is accurate, unique, and tells a human nothing.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS3208 | Algerian Academic Research Network | 59 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DZ | Algeria | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-12-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16214
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS16214
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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