Autonomous system
AS4616 HKPOLYU-HK The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Education APNIC
Summary
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
education university research legacy
HKPOLYU-HK is the campus network of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), one of Hong Kong's publicly funded research universities, based in Hung Hom.
What it's used for
- Campus and research connectivity: faculty and student access, university services, and research computing across PolyU's campus.
Notable
- An institutional network rather than a commercial one. The address space serves the university itself, so traffic from it reads as academic rather than residential.
- The allocation is large for the number of people on campus, a hallmark of early academic address assignments made before addresses were scarce.
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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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 82.94K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4616- Registry name
- HKPOLYU-HK
- Registrant
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@polyu.edu.hk
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2022-05-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 9 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS4616
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,288 naming AS4616
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: 431 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