Autonomous system
AS8605 LANET
Education APNIC
Summary
LANET (University of Latvia)
education research university legacy
LANET is the Latvian Academic Network, run by the University of Latvia. It is Latvia's national research and education network, connecting the country's universities, institutes, schools and libraries.
What it's used for
- Campus and inter-institution connectivity for Latvian academia. The AS announces a small, tidy inventory (roughly 7,000 IPv4 addresses in three prefixes, plus one IPv6 /48) and keeps just a couple of BGP neighbours — the profile of a stub NREN rather than a commercial carrier.
- rDNS is unambiguously academic:
lanet.lvfor network infrastructure and member sites (lielvardes-gw.lanet.lv,cfi-gw.lanet.lvgateways), andlu.lvfor the University of Latvia itself, broken out by faculty and department (ef.lu.lvfor economics,admin.lu.lvfor administration,med-farmakologi1.lu.lvfor pharmacology).
Notable
- The rDNS is full of named desk machines, printers and staff workstations rather than generic pools. That is the classic institutional signature: static assignments a network administrator hand-labels, not eyeball subscriber space.
- LANET is the operational home of the
.lvacademic community and connects onward to the pan-European research backbone, so the addresses behave like university space even where a member organisation is not a university.
Interesting
- The University of Latvia does double duty here: it is both a member of the network and its operator. Several small national NRENs in Europe were founded the same way, inside whichever university first got a link out of the country.
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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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 7.17K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LV | Latvia | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS8605- Registry name
- LANET
- Registrant
- University of Latvia
- Abuse contact
- netadmin@serviss.lu.lv
- Registered
- 2002-08-23
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS8605
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8605
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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