Autonomous system
AS5479 UNI-VILNIUS University Network in Vilnius
Education RIPE
Summary
LITNET (Kaunas University of Technology)
education research university legacy
UNI-VILNIUS is the Vilnius university-network segment of LITNET, Lithuania's national research and education network. The resources are registered to Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), which holds the LITNET LIR and runs its network operations centre.
What it's used for
- Campus and inter-institution connectivity for Lithuanian universities, research institutes, and schools attached to the Vilnius region of LITNET.
- Research and education traffic, including the onward path to the pan-European GÉANT network that LITNET belongs to.
Notable
- The handle and the registrant do not match, and that is not an error: LITNET is run jointly through technical centres at several Lithuanian universities (including Vilnius University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vytautas Magnus University, Klaipėda University, and KTU), with KTU acting as the administering institution for the registry objects.
- LITNET dates to 1991 and serves well over a thousand institutions, which is why its address space behaves like an NREN rather than a single campus.
Interesting
- Reading the
descralone ("University Network in Vilnius") suggests a Vilnius organisation; the actual RIPE organisation object is in Kaunas. It is a good reminder that an AS handle records a network, not necessarily the city of the body that registers it.
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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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 31.74K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LT | Lithuania | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5479- Registry name
- UNI-VILNIUS
- Registrant
- AS2847-MNT
- Abuse contact
- cert@vu.lt
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-09-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 88% valid · 7 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS5479
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS5479
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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