Autonomous system
AS8308 NASK-COMMERCIAL
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
NASK — Research and Academic Computer Network (commercial network)
transit isp research legacy
NASK-COMMERCIAL is the commercial network of NASK, Poland's *Naukowa i
Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa* — the National Research Institute that built the
country's first internet connectivity. NASK is a state research institute, but this
particular AS is its commercial ISP arm, distinct from its academic and
registry roles.
What it's used for
- Internet access and IP transit sold to Polish businesses, public administration and smaller regional operators. Around 68 downstream ASNs sit behind it, which is a real customer cone rather than a stub.
- Reverse DNS shows both sides of that. Backbone and NOC hosts appear as
SITE-gw-INTERFACE.warman.nask.pl(WARMAN is NASK's Warsaw metropolitan network) anddc11-gw-01.noc.nask.pl, while customer ranges resolve onto entirely unrelated Polish domains: regional ISPs, clinics and local companies. - The AS carries several old
/16s, including193.59.0.0/16,194.92.0.0/16,194.181.0.0/16and195.164.0.0/16.
Notable
- Do not read customer addresses as NASK's own. Much of this space is assigned out to downstream businesses and operators, so a hostname or an organisation found in it usually belongs to a customer, not to the institute.
- NASK's better-known activities live elsewhere: it operates the
.pldomain registry and hosts CERT Polska, Poland's national computer emergency response team. This AS is the commercial connectivity business that sits alongside them. - The large classful-era holdings and the low AS number reflect NASK's origins as the organisation that first put Poland on the internet.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PL | Poland | 152 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8308- Registry name
- NASK-COMMERCIAL
- Registrant
- AS8308-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nask.pl
- Registered
- 2002-07-29
- Last changed
- 2019-12-04
- Status
- active
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- NASK
- Also known as
- Research & Academic Computer Network
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-NASK- Present at
- 7 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.nask.pl
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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