Autonomous system
AS17579 KREONET2-AS-KR KISTI
Education RIPE
Summary
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)
education research nren
Serves the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), the government research institute that operates KREONET, South Korea's national research network.
What it's used for
- Backbone connecting South Korean universities, government labs, and supercomputing facilities to each other and internationally.
Notable
- A national research and education network, not a single campus. An IP here is institutional research-network infrastructure, classified
educationrather than commercial hosting. - The large announced-prefix count reflects a national backbone serving many member research institutions.
Interesting
- KREONET is Korea's oldest research network and links high-performance computing and big-science facilities across the country.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.91.237 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 1 downstream and 20 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 19 prefixes · 6.91K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 35 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS17579- Registry name
- KREONET2-AS-KR-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 2001-01-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 27 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 28 authorising AS17579
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 27 of 28 announcements
- Route objects
- 46 naming AS17579
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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