Autonomous system
AS8365 MANDA
Education RIPE
Summary
man-da.de (MANDA, Darmstadt)
education research legacy
MANDA — man-da.de GmbH, the operating company for MANDA, the *Metropolitan Area
Network Darmstadt*. It is owned in equal parts by TU Darmstadt and Hochschule
Darmstadt and serves the scientific community of Darmstadt and southern Hesse.
What it's used for
- Regional research and education networking. The AS originates the university blocks directly:
130.83.0.0/16is TU Darmstadt (rDNS such asHOST.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de) and141.100.0.0/16is Hochschule Darmstadt;82.195.64.0/19carries further Hessian institutions.
Notable
- An NREN-adjacent regional network, not a commercial carrier despite the "GmbH" — the shareholders are the two universities it serves.
- The very large neighbour count comes from man-da.de peering openly at Frankfurt's exchanges, which sits it in the middle of one of the densest interconnection markets in the world for a network of its size.
Interesting
- The
130.83.0.0/16block is a legacy Class B held by TU Darmstadt from the early days of German academic networking; MANDA announces it on the university's behalf.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8365- Registry name
- MANDA
- Registrant
- MANDA-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@man-da.de
- Registered
- 2002-07-19
- Last changed
- 2025-08-07
- Status
- active
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.
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