Autonomous system
AS45773 HECPERN-AS-PK PERN AS Content Servie Provider, Islamabad, Pakistan
Unclassified APNIC Educational/Research
Summary
Pakistan Education & Research Network
education research network pakistan
HECPERN-AS-PK is operated by Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN).
What it's used for
- The address space carries traffic for higher education institutions, evidenced by registrants including
University of Engineering Technology Lahore,Bahria University Islamabad,Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari, andCOMSATS Institute of Information Technology. - The AS announces 12,032 IPv4 addresses and 126 IPv6 prefixes across 8 IPv4 prefixes, with only 3 observed neighbours, indicating a regional access network for academic sites rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic consists of research, academic, and institutional data for over 400 higher education institutions across Pakistan.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes (
111.68.96.0/20,121.52.144.0/20) are listed asHEC(Higher Education Commission), while smaller prefixes are registered directly to specific universities. - The inventory includes a mix of netnames such as
PERN-PK,HECPERN-PK, and university-specific identifiers likeBUI-PKandCIITPERN-PK. - Reverse DNS entries include
hec.gov.pkandciitlahore.edu.pk, confirming the academic nature of the endpoints.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 12.03K addresses IPv6 126 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PK | Pakistan | 134 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS45773- Registry name
- HECPERN-AS-PK
- Registrant
- HEC
- Abuse contact
- wakhan@hec.gov.pk
- Registered
- 2009-05-11
- Last changed
- 2026-08-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Pakistan Education & Research Network
- Also known as
- PERN
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-PERN- Website
- http://www.pern.edu.pk
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
- 100% valid · 113 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS45773
- ASPA
- 3 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 113 of 113 announcements
- Route objects
- 162 naming AS45773
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: 440 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