Autonomous system
AS16263 RAMAN
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Uniwersytet Radomski
education research infrastructure
A five-letter netname that reads as a physics term and stands for a metropolitan academic network.
What it's used for
- A university's campus network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Poland, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- The netname and the AS handle are the same five letters. They read as the name of a scattering effect in physics, but they are an abbreviation: the city, the word academic, and three letters for a metropolitan area network.
- The holder field is the university's full name, including the words saying it is named in honour of a historical figure, so the field carries a dedication as well as an identity.
- The second registrant names the institution as a technical university, which is what it was called before it was renamed, so the record holds both eras at once.
- One block of a thousand addresses, one upstream, and nothing else: no IPv6, no second registration.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Metropolitan academic networks were built to connect the universities of one city to each other before they connected to anything else. The abbreviation survives in the netname long after the city network became a single institution's uplink.
- An abbreviation that happens to spell a real word is a gift to anyone reading routing tables and a trap for anyone searching them.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS8501 | Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Science, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center | 63 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, 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 · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PL | Poland | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16263- Registry name
- RAMAN
- Registrant
- Uniwersytet Radomski im. Kazimierza Pulaskiego
- Abuse contact
- abuse@uthrad.pl
- Registered
- 2002-04-16
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS16263
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS16263
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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