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Autonomous system

AS8618 Ionion University

Education RIPE

IPv4 addresses 2.05K 3 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly GR
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Ionian University

Greece · AI-generated

education university research legacy

The Ionian University (Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο), based in Corfu and founded in 1984. The AS carries the university's campus network. Note the registry spells the holder "Ionion University".

What it's used for

  • Campus connectivity for the university's departments, single-homed to Greece's national research and education network. About 2,000 IPv4 addresses across four small prefixes.
  • rDNS lands under ionio.gr — named servers, gateways and a PlanetLab research node pair (planetlab1.ionio.gr, planetlab2.ionio.gr) — and under teiion.gr, with departmental and administrative machines (pc101-200.de.teiion.gr, arg-dioik.teiion.gr).

Notable

  • The teiion.gr names are the interesting part: they belong to the former Technological Educational Institute of the Ionian Islands, which was absorbed into the Ionian University in 2019. The merged institution kept the old domain live rather than renumber, so a single AS now carries two generations of Greek higher-education naming.
  • Institutional space throughout. The dial-athens.ionio.gr and dialup3.ionio.gr hosts are the university's own legacy remote-access servers, not a commercial dial-up ISP.

Interesting

  • The PlanetLab nodes are a fossil of the 2000s distributed-systems research testbed, which ran on machines donated by universities worldwide. The testbed is long shut down; the PTR records outlived it.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS5408National Infrastructures for Research and Technology S.A.248

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 3 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
GRGreece3

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS8618
Registry name
UNSPECIFIED
Registrant
IONIAN-MNT
Abuse contact
noc@ionio.gr
Registered
1970-01-01
Last changed
2018-09-04
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
3 authorising AS8618
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
Route objects
5 naming AS8618

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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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

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