Autonomous system
AS6579 MEMORIALU
Education ARIN
Summary
Memorial University of Newfoundland
education university research legacy
MEMORIALU is the autonomous system of Memorial University of Newfoundland, the province's public university, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
What it's used for
AS6579 carries traffic for the university's campuses. It originates the university's 134.153.0.0/16 alongside 208.85.80.0/22, 209.205.240.0/20 and a few smaller legacy blocks, roughly 71,000 IPv4 addresses. Reverse DNS resolves under mun.ca, including hosts in the cc.mun.ca computing-and-communications domain.
Notable
This is an institutional address: students, faculty, staff, campus wireless, labs and university-hosted services all sit behind it. As Newfoundland and Labrador's only university, Memorial is also a significant research site, and its network connects onward through Canada's national research and education networking infrastructure.
The classic 134.153.0.0/16 is a legacy Class B, the standard shape of a university allocation from the pre-CIDR era. ARIN's ASN record dates to May 1996.
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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 71.42K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6579- Registry name
- MEMORIALU
- Registrant
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Abuse contact
- toddf@mun.ca
- Registered
- 1996-05-29
- Last changed
- 2021-11-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS6579
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS6579
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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