AS8140 Instituto Federal Electoral

Registered as Instituto Federal Electoral, this AS belongs to what is now the

Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) — Mexico's autonomous federal electoral

authority, which organises national elections and maintains the country's voter

roll and national ID credential. The registry name preserves the institute's

pre-2014 title; the network itself has moved on.

What it's used for

• The institute's own internet-facing systems. The reverse DNS across 200.34.164.0/22 carries both eras of the name side by side: dns.ife.org.mx and gwife1.ife.org.mx alongside election-cycle application hosts on ine.mx, with labels such as pef2021-… (proceso electoral federal 2021).

Notable

• This is a government network, and a sensitive one: the electoral roll and results-transmission systems it fronts are among the most scrutinised public infrastructure in Mexico.
• It is small — four /24s, about 1,024 addresses, announced through a single BGP neighbour. Addresses here are institutional hosts, never consumer lines.

Interesting

• The rDNS is effectively a changelog of Mexican electoral processes: hostnames are stamped with the election they were stood up for, so successive federal and local cycles are still legible in the zone years later.