Autonomous system
AS5438 ATI-
Unclassified RIPE
IPv4 addresses
16.13K
18 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly TN
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Agence Tunisienne d'Internet (ATI)
government isp legacy
ATI-TN — the Agence Tunisienne d'Internet, Tunisia's state internet agency
and the operator of the country's national IP backbone.
What it's used for
- National backbone and upstream connectivity for Tunisian ISPs, universities and public institutions, along with hosting and domain services run by the agency.
Notable
- A government network in the truest sense: ATI is a public agency, and for years it was the mandatory international gateway through which essentially all Tunisian internet traffic passed.
- That chokepoint position made ATI the technical instrument of national filtering under the pre-2011 regime, a role widely mocked at the time as "Ammar 404". The agency was restructured after the 2011 revolution and the filtering apparatus dismantled.
Interesting
- A single agency holding both the national backbone and the country's early ASN is a common shape for states that brought the internet in through one door in the mid-1990s.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TN | Tunisia | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5438- Registry name
- ATI-TN
- Registrant
- AS5438-MNT
- Abuse contact
- tn.ati@ati.tn
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-07-20
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere