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Autonomous system

AS198864 QMW-AC-UK

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 133K 5 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 2 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly GB
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Queen Mary University of London

United Kingdom · AI-generated

education university research london

The AS handle QMW-AC-UK is operated by Queen Mary University of London.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries university infrastructure, evidenced by netnames such as QMUL-CLASSB1-NET, QMUL-CLASSB2-NET, QMUL-RDTZ-NET, and QMW-DC3-NET, along with reverse DNS entries like host-138-37-64-0.qmul.ac.uk and mepp3csw01.vlan842.accb.sd02-vrf-internet.core-net.qmul.ac.uk.
  • The network announces 132,864 IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining only 1 observed neighbour, indicating a self-contained institutional network rather than a transit provider.
  • Traffic consists of academic and research endpoints, administrative systems, and campus services for a public research university with multiple sites in London.

Notable

  • All registrants for the announced prefixes are listed as Queen Mary University of London, with contact roles including QMUL Chief Information Officer, IT Services CIO, QMUL Network Support, and QMUL Network Abuse.
  • The address inventory includes two large /16 blocks (138.37.0.0/16 and 161.23.0.0/16) alongside smaller /22, /23, and /24 allocations, reflecting a substantial internal corporate estate segmented by function or site.

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

Full topology · Graph

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.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS786Jisc Services Limited377

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 5 prefixes · 133K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
GBUnited Kingdom7

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS198864
Registry name
QMW-AC-UK
Registrant
MNT-QMW-AC-UK
Abuse contact
netabuse@qmul.ac.uk
Registered
2012-06-05
Last changed
2020-02-17
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
ROAs
0 authorising AS198864
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
86% registered · 6 of 7 announcements
Route objects
12 naming AS198864

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: 447 networks and 1,845 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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

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