Autonomous system
AS271 BCNET-AS
Unclassified ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
BCNET
education research legacy
BCNET (BCNET-AS), the not-for-profit research and education network serving British Columbia, Canada.
What it's used for
- High-capacity networking connecting British Columbia's universities, colleges, and research institutions to each other and to national research networks.
Notable
- A regional research-and-education network (REN), not a commercial ISP. The low AS number reflects an early-internet allocation.
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
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.7 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 16 downstream and 35 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 115 prefixes · 185K addresses IPv6 94 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 209 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS271- Registry name
- BCNET-AS
- Registrant
- BCNET
- Abuse contact
- bcnet-arin-abuse@bc.net
- Registered
- 1989-02-24
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- BCNET
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS271:AS-BCNET-MEMBERS- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- https://www.bc.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 106 valid, 14 with no ROA 7 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 129 authorising AS271
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 125 of 127 announcements
- Route objects
- 147 naming AS271
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: 432 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