Autonomous system
AS8524 eg-auc
Education AFRINIC
Summary
The American University in Cairo
education university legacy
AS8524 is held by The American University in Cairo (AUC), the private English-language university in Egypt whose main campus is in New Cairo. The RIPE handle on its address space is eg-auc.
What it's used for
- Campus networking for AUC: faculty and student systems, libraries, laboratories and the university's public-facing services.
- The AS announces about 4,300 addresses, carved as a long run of consecutive
213.181.22x–24x/24s out of the university's own213.181.224.0allocation.
Notable
- The RIPE object describes the block plainly as an Enterprise Local Registry assigned to the university — the address space is registered to AUC itself, not routed on its behalf by an Egyptian carrier, which is unusual for a university in the region and reflects an early, direct membership.
- Sampled addresses publish no public reverse DNS. A campus that keeps PTR records internal is common; what matters here is that nothing in the block looks like provider or subscriber space, and the AS has only four BGP neighbours.
Interesting
- AUC has been one of Egypt's earliest and most persistent internet sites, which is how a single university ended up holding a four-digit AS number and its own contiguous /19-sized allocation.
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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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EG | Egypt | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-09-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 17 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8524
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 35% registered · 6 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS8524
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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