Autonomous system
AS7417 Ministry of Economy
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Ministry of Economy (Argentina)
government legacy
The network of Argentina's Ministry of Economy (Ministerio de Economía), registered from Hipólito Yrigoyen 250 in Buenos Aires. Despite the ARIN-era records, this is a LACNIC-managed government network.
What it's used for
- Government networking for the Ministry of Economy and the offices it hosts.
- Announces roughly 36k IPv4 addresses, all inside
168.101.0.0/16, with reverse DNS uniformly undermecon.gov.ar— the ministry's own domain.
Notable
- Government address space, not an ISP: the rDNS pattern (
h168-101-x-y.mecon.gov.ar) is a flat, ministry-wide naming scheme, with no subscriber-style DSL or CGNAT hostnames anywhere in the block. - The generic handle "Ministry of Economy" is easy to misattribute — the registrant address places it firmly in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Interesting
- A large legacy /16 held by a single national ministry is unusual outside the early-allocation era; the address space is used to number a national government department rather than to sell connectivity.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 10 prefixes · 36.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AR | Argentina | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS7417- Registry name
- 7417
- Registrant
- Ministry of Economy
- Registered
- 1996-12-05
- Last changed
- 1996-12-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 19 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7417
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 19 of 19 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS7417
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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