Autonomous system
AS6509 CANARIE-NTN
Education ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
CANARIE Inc
education research legacy
CANARIE-NTN belongs to CANARIE, Canada's national research and education network (NREN), based in Ottawa. CANARIE operates the backbone that interconnects Canada's provincial research networks, universities, colleges and research institutions.
What it's used for
- Research and education networking rather than commercial service. The AS has a deliberately small routed footprint: a single announced IPv4
/24alongside IPv6 prefixes. - Reverse DNS on the announced space resolves to CANARIE backbone routers under
network.canarie.ca, confirming this is infrastructure addressing rather than end-user space.
Notable
- CANARIE is the Canadian peer of NRENs such as Internet2 in the US, GEANT in Europe and JANET in the UK, and connects Canadian researchers into the international research-network fabric.
- The ARIN organisation record dates to 1994 and the ASN to 1996, placing CANARIE among the genuinely early national research-network allocations.
Interesting
- CANARIE's institutional address space largely sits with the regional and university networks it federates, which is why the national backbone AS itself announces so little. A small routed footprint here is a sign of a well-structured NREN, not a small network.
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
Recorded at 7 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.189 |
| Toronto Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 206.108.34.170 |
| YYCIX Calgary Internet Exchange | Calgary, Canada | 206.126.225.78 |
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.79 |
| Vancouver Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.41.104.76 |
| YXEIX Saskatoon Internet Exchange | Saskatoon, Canada | 206.71.11.39 |
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Halifax | Halifax, Canada | 206.130.15.11 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 14 downstream and 36 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 29 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6509- Registry name
- CANARIE-NTN
- Registrant
- CANARIE Inc
- Abuse contact
- richard.klinger@canarie.ca
- Registered
- 1996-05-10
- Last changed
- 2022-04-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- CANARIE Inc
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS6509:AS-CANARIE- Present at
- 9 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.canarie.ca
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
- 83% valid · 5 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS6509
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 33% registered · 2 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS6509
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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