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.
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Address space
Summary
| 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
- Status
- active
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.
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere