Autonomous system
AS8256 LODMAN-AS Metropolitan Area Network LODMAN
Education RIPE
Summary
LODMAN (Łódź Metropolitan Area Network)
education research legacy
LODMAN-AS is the Łódź Metropolitan Area Network, the academic MAN for the city of Łódź, operated by the Lodz University of Technology (Politechnika Łódzka). It is one of the regional MANs that make up Poland's national research and education network alongside PIONIER.
What it's used for
- Around 39,700 addresses across six prefixes — notably
212.191.0.0/17, registered as Metropolitan Area Network LODMAN — plus IPv6 from2001:b10::/35. - Reverse DNS splits between the MAN's own infrastructure (
e-gw.man.lodz.pl,vrrp-gw.uni.lodz.pl, VPN gateways) and the connected institutions' campuses:pc-212-51-208-NN.p.lodz.pldesktop pools at the technical university, faculty subdomains, and the University of Łódź. - Connectivity for the city's universities, research institutes and other public institutions, plus the shared academic infrastructure they run.
Notable
- Institutional addressing. A hit here is a campus machine, a lab or an institute in Łódź — not a home connection and not a commercial customer.
- MAN operators like this one are their own kind of animal: a university runs the network, but the address space serves many member institutions across the city, so the specific organisation behind an address varies.
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.
Transit providers
3 upstream, 0 downstream and 5 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 39.68K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PL | Poland | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8256- Registry name
- LODMAN-AS
- Registrant
- AS8256-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@man.lodz.pl
- Registered
- 2002-06-03
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 86% valid · 6 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS8256
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS8256
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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