Autonomous system
AS4758 NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP National Informatics Centre
Hosting APNIC Non-Profit
Summary
National Informatics Centre (NIC), India
government legacy
NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP belongs to the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Government of India's central IT organisation, which builds and runs NICNET — the network connecting India's ministries, departments, states, and districts.
What it's used for
- Government networking and e-governance services: NIC hosts and operates a large share of central and state government systems, portals, and data centres.
- Connectivity for government offices down to the district level over NICNET.
Notable
- This is public-sector address space. Traffic here is government services rather than consumer access or commercial hosting.
- The
VSNLin the handle records the historic border/transit arrangement with VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited), India's former international carrier and now part of Tata Communications; the handle outlived that arrangement.
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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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 103 prefixes · 72.70K addresses IPv6 253 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 356 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4758- Registry name
- NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP
- Registrant
- National Informatics Centre
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nic.in
- Registered
- 2016-10-21
- Last changed
- 2025-07-31
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- National Informatics Centre India
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-NIC-NKN-BGP-PEERS- Website
- http://www.nic.in
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
- 96% valid · 267 valid, 4 with no ROA 8 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 122 authorising AS4758
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 97% registered · 272 of 279 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 659 naming AS4758
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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