Autonomous system
AS8466 BILKENT
Education RIPE
Summary
Bilkent University
education university research legacy
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University (BILKENT) is a private research university in Ankara, Turkey, and one of the country's earliest and best-known internet sites.
What it's used for
- Campus networking for the university: faculty and departmental systems, student labs and residence halls, library services and research computing.
- Hosting for university-run web, mail and DNS services.
Notable
- Announces a single legacy
/16(about 65,000 addresses), the classic shape of an early university allocation rather than a modern, fragmented one. - Reverse DNS across the block lands on
bilkent.edu.tr, including router names under the campus computer centre, confirming this is institutional campus space and not a commercial ISP.
Interesting
- Bilkent was among the first Turkish institutions on the internet, and both the low AS number and the unbroken
/16are artifacts of that early-1990s academic wave.
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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
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS8517 | National Academic Network and Information Center | 63 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TR | Turkey | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8466- Registry name
- BILKENT
- Registrant
- BILKENT-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse.ripe@bilkent.edu.tr
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2016-04-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS8466
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS8466
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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