AS6699 URAN-AS

URAN-AS belongs to the N. N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics

of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Yekaterinburg. It

carries the Ural academic network, and its reverse DNS resolves under uran.ru.

What it's used for

• Connectivity for the institutes of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences — research groups, scientific computing and institutional systems.
• Announces a contiguous run of /24s inside 195.19.128.0/19. Router reverse DNS follows an academic-network pattern (r1-135.uran.ru and similar), not a subscriber one.

Notable

• A research-institute network, not a service provider: the address space sits in laboratories and institute machine rooms, with no consumer or hosting product behind it.
• The institute is a centre for computational mathematics and hosts high-performance computing resources for the region's researchers.

Interesting

• The handle is a trap for the unwary. URAN here is Ural, in Russia. There is an entirely separate and unrelated Ukrainian academic network also called URAN (the Association of Users of the Ukrainian Research and Academic Network) on a different AS number. Same four letters, different country, different institution.