Autonomous system
AS55824 NKN-CORE-NW NKN Core Network
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
National Knowledge Network (NKN)
isp research backbone
National Knowledge Network (NKN) is India's government-run research and education network, providing a high-speed backbone that connects universities, research institutes, and public institutions. It is managed by the National Informatics Centre.
What it's used for
- Backbone connectivity for Indian academic, research, and government institutions, not a consumer mobile carrier.
Notable
- This is a national research and education network (NREN), not a commercial eyeball ISP; its addresses front institutions rather than mobile handsets.
- Peers with global research networks such as GEANT, Internet2, and other NRENs.
Interesting
- NKN links well over a thousand institutions across India on a multi-gigabit core, serving research and education rather than the general public.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 153 prefixes · 82.94K addresses IPv6 321 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 474 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS55824- Registry name
- NKN-CORE-NW
- Registrant
- National Knowledge Network
- Abuse contact
- abuseteam@nkn.in
- Registered
- 2010-10-19
- Last changed
- 2026-07-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 98% valid · 262 valid, 2 with no ROA 3 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 349 authorising AS55824
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 96% registered · 257 of 267 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 899 naming AS55824
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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