Autonomous system
AS59128 KMC - Kyoto University Microcomputer Club
Education ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
Kyoto University Microcomputer Club (KMC)
education research
The Kyoto University Microcomputer Club (KMC), a student computer club at Kyoto University that runs its own non-profit autonomous system to learn hands-on IP networking and BGP.
What it's used for
- Educational and research networking operated by club members: a small production AS for hosting club services and experimenting with routing.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional/educational — a university student circle's network, not commercial hosting, even though it announces its own prefixes and peers like a small operator.
Interesting
- KMC operates the AS explicitly to give students real experience running BGP and peering, and participates in community peering projects.
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 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| JP | Japan | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS59128- Registry name
- KMC
- Registered
- 2013-09-09
- Last changed
- 2019-05-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Kyoto University Microcomputer Club (KMC)
- Also known as
- KMC
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS59128:AS-KMC- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.kmc.gr.jp/projects/as/
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
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS59128
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS59128
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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