Autonomous system
AS8501 PIONIER-AS PIONIER, National Research and Education Network in Poland
Education ARIN Educational/Research
Summary
PIONIER
education research legacy
PIONIER-AS is the autonomous system of PIONIER, the Polish Optical Internet national research and education network. The AS is registered to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, whose Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) operates the network.
What it's used for
- The national backbone linking Poland's academic city networks (MANs), universities, institutes and supercomputing centres to each other, to GÉANT and to the commercial internet.
- Carrying research traffic for large collaborations, grid/HPC projects and national e-infrastructure services run out of PSNC.
Notable
- The IPv4 footprint is small for an NREN — roughly 1,800 addresses in a handful of
212.191.x/24s, plus one IPv6 block. That is because this AS numbers the backbone itself; member universities and MANs hold their own address space and their own AS numbers, and reach the internet through PIONIER. - rDNS is almost entirely router naming under
rtr.pionier.gov.pl— hostnames encode the link endpoints between city gateways (Poznań, Łódź, Kraków, Białystok, Bydgoszcz, Kielce, Częstochowa). There are no subscriber pools at all: this is infrastructure address space. - A few addresses in the range resolve to Akamai cache appliances, the usual arrangement of a research network hosting a CDN node on-net for its members.
Interesting
- The
.gov.pldomain in the router names reflects PIONIER's status as state-funded national infrastructure rather than a commercial carrier.
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.
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 5 prefixes · 1.79K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| PL | Poland | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8501- Registry name
- PIONIER-AS
- Registrant
- AS8256-MNT
- Abuse contact
- cert@man.poznan.pl
- Registered
- 2002-09-06
- Last changed
- 2026-03-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- PIONIER
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-PLNET- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://www.pionier.net.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.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8501
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS8501
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