Autonomous system
AS6879 ENSTINET-
Education APNIC
Summary
ENSTINET (Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network)
education research legacy
ENSTINET-EG is the Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network, operated under the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). It serves as Egypt's national research and education network (NREN).
What it's used for
- Connectivity and information services for Egyptian universities and national research centres, plus access to the international research networks that NRENs interconnect with.
- Hosting of national scholarly infrastructure such as scientific repositories and the Egyptian ISSN centre.
Notable
- The AS is a research and education network, not a commercial ISP. Its announced space is a long run of /24s inside
195.43.0.0/16. - Reverse DNS on those prefixes still resolves under
EUnet.eg.netand Egyptian government domains, reflecting ENSTINET's role at the junction of academia and the state.
Interesting
- The ASN is registered in AFRINIC while sitting in an AS-number block otherwise administered by the RIPE NCC. That is a fingerprint of an early allocation made before AFRINIC existed as a separate registry, later transferred to it along with the rest of Africa's resources.
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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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 6.14K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EG | Egypt | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6879- Registry name
- ORG-EA21-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- ENSTINET
- Registered
- 2010-12-07
- Last changed
- 2016-05-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 24 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6879
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 4% registered · 1 of 24 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6879
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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