Autonomous system
AS5498 UNIBEL-AS
Education RIPE
Summary
UNIBEL (Ministry of Education of Belarus)
education research legacy
UNIBEL-AS is the network of the Central Information and Analytical Center at the Ministry of Education of Belarus, the body that operates UNIBEL, the Belarusian academic and education network.
What it's used for
- Connectivity for Belarusian schools, universities, and other institutions under the Ministry of Education.
- The ministry's own information systems and the education-sector services the centre runs on their behalf.
Notable
- This is a national education network run out of a government ministry rather than a university consortium, so it sits on the line between an NREN and a state agency network.
- The routed address space is modest for a national-scale network, which fits a centrally administered service centre rather than a network that hands large allocations to each connected campus.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS21274 | State Scientific Enterprise 'United Institute of Informatics Problems of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus' (UIIP NASB) | 57 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BY | Belarus | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5498- Registry name
- UNIBEL-AS
- Registrant
- AS5498-MNT
- Abuse contact
- adm@unibel.by
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5498
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS5498
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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