Autonomous system
AS6127 IDSC
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC)
government legacy
IDSC is Egypt's Information and Decision Support Center, the information and analysis body attached to the Egyptian Cabinet. It is a government network based in Cairo.
What it's used for
- Connectivity for a government information centre: IDSC's own systems and the ICT services it provides to Egyptian government bodies. Its announced space is drawn entirely from
163.121.0.0/16, a legacy Egyptian /16 registered to IDSC itself. - It multi-homes across several international transit providers, which is what a national government body needs for reachability rather than what a provider needs to sell capacity.
Notable
- A government address: IPs in
163.121.0.0/16belong to Egyptian public-sector systems, not to consumers or hosting customers. Egyptian home broadband comes from commercial ISPs and lives in entirely different space. - The organisation dates to 1985 and functions as both an information provider and a policy think tank for the Cabinet, an unusually broad remit for an entity that also holds a /16.
Interesting
- The record has moved registries twice. It was created in the RIPE database, transferred to AFRINIC in 2007 when the African registry took over the region's resources, and ARIN still shows the number itself as delegated out of its blocks. Three registries touch one Egyptian government ASN.
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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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 25 prefixes · 8.45K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EG | Egypt | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-09-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 33 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6127
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 33 of 33 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS6127
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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