Autonomous system
AS8517 ULAKNET
Education RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
ULAKNET
education research legacy
ULAKNET is Turkey's national research and education network, operated by ULAKBİM, the Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre, an institute of the national research council TÜBİTAK. It is the country's NREN: the network that connects Turkish universities to each other, to GÉANT and to the wider internet.
What it's used for
- Backbone and access connectivity for public and private universities, research institutes, and other academic bodies across Turkey.
- Shared academic services run by ULAKBİM — mirrors, national e-resource licensing, identity federation and the country's academic addressing.
Notable
- The AS carries a large inventory for an NREN: roughly 300,000 addresses, including a full
194.27.0.0/16plus161.9.128.0/17,95.183.128.0/17and a set of193.255.x/24s. - rDNS resolves straight onto
edu.trcampuses — hosts undergazi.edu.tr,kocaeli.edu.trand their peers. Much of the space is delegated to member universities that run their own naming, so many addresses answer nothing at all. - Large parts of the block are university-side end-user space rather than provider infrastructure, but the users are students and staff on campus, not consumer broadband subscribers.
Interesting
- Because ULAKNET numbers so many institutions out of one AS, the individual campus is invisible in BGP — the university boundary shows up only in DNS.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 134 prefixes · 230K addresses IPv6 47 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TR | Turkey | 181 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8517- Registry name
- ULAKNET
- Registrant
- National Academic Network and Information Center
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ulakbim.gov.tr
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2020-12-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ULAKNET
- Also known as
- TUBITAK ULAKBIM
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://www.ulakbim.gov.tr
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
- 100% valid · 39 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 56 authorising AS8517
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 39 of 39 announcements
- Route objects
- 134 naming AS8517
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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