Autonomous system
AS376 RISQ-AS
Unclassified DROP-listed space ARIN
Summary
RISQ (Réseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Québec)
education research legacy
An early allocation (RISQ-AS) for the Réseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Québec, Quebec's research and education network, based in Montreal.
What it's used for
- Connecting universities, colleges, and research institutions across Quebec, and linking them to national and international research networks.
Notable
- An institutional research/education network (an NREN member), not a commercial ISP. The low AS number marks an early-internet allocation from 1989.
Interesting
- One of Canada's original regional research networks, in operation for over three decades.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.163 |
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.1 |
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Quebec | Quebec, Canada | 149.112.119.6 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 22 downstream and 45 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 228 prefixes · 922K addresses IPv6 64 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 292 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS376- Registry name
- RISQ-AS
- Registrant
- Reseau d'Informations Scientifiques du Quebec (RISQ Inc.)
- Abuse contact
- abuse@risq.qc.ca
- Registered
- 1989-07-27
- Last changed
- 2022-03-25
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 240 valid, 48 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 284 authorising AS376
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 281 of 288 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 554 naming AS376
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.
4 DROP matches Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 205.237.8.0/23 | 205.237.8.0/24 | SBL625051 |
| 205.237.10.0/23 | 205.237.10.0/23 | SBL625052 |
| 205.237.12.0/22 | 205.237.12.0/22 | SBL625053 |
| 205.237.16.0/22 | 205.237.16.0/22 | SBL624902 |
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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