Autonomous system
AS8522 FORTH-AS
Education RIPE
Summary
FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas)
education research legacy
FORTH-AS belongs to the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece's largest research centre, headquartered in Heraklion, Crete. Its Institute of Computer Science (ICS-FORTH) runs the network, which also served as one of the earliest internet nodes in Greece.
What it's used for
- Campus and institute connectivity for FORTH's research institutes and their staff, laboratories and servers.
- Hosting for research infrastructure and shared services run by ICS-FORTH, including measurement and monitoring nodes for international projects.
Notable
- The core of the inventory is the legacy
139.91.0.0/16— a full class-B equivalent, about 65,000 addresses, held by a single research foundation. That scale of assignment is a hallmark of an early allocation rather than of the network's present-day size. - rDNS is almost entirely
ics.forth.gr: name servers, mail gateways and institutional hosts. Guest research nodes appear inside the block too — for example a monitoring host belonging to Brazil'sregistro.br— which is normal for a research campus that hosts probes for international projects. - No dynamic, DSL or subscriber naming anywhere: institutional address space throughout.
Interesting
- FORTH's networking group has a long history in Greek and European research networking, and the low AS number together with the /16 reflects its role in connecting Greece to the early internet.
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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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 17 prefixes · 65.79K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GR | Greece | 18 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8522- Registry name
- FORTH-AS
- Registrant
- FORTH-NOC-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ics.forth.gr
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2021-06-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS8522
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS8522
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: 442 networks and 1,773 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