Autonomous system
AS6879 ENSTINET-
Education
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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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EG | Egypt | 9 |
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