Autonomous system
AS8678 ANKARA-NET Ankara Universitesi Rektorlugu
Education RIPE
Summary
Ankara University
education university research legacy
ANKARA-NET is held by Ankara Üniversitesi Rektörlüğü — the rectorate of Ankara University, Turkey's first university of the republican era, founded in 1946 in the capital.
What it's used for
The AS carries the university's campus network: roughly 22,000 IPv4 addresses across 14 prefixes, spread over faculties, research institutes, hospitals and student housing on the Tandoğan, Cebeci, Beşevler, Dışkapı and Gölbaşı campuses. No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled, so the internal naming could not be examined; the inventory shape (a mix of legacy 193.255.x and 194.27.x academic blocks alongside newer 5.23.x, 46.182.x, 80.251.x and 92.61.x allocations) is typical of a large Turkish university that has grown its assignment over three decades.
Notable
- A single observed BGP neighbour: the university is single-homed, which in Turkey means transit from ULAKBIM/ULAKNET, the national academic backbone that connects essentially every Turkish state university.
- The
194.27.24.0/22and193.255.xblocks are classic ULAKNET-era academic space, first seen in the routing table in 2001.
Interesting
Ankara University runs one of Turkey's largest university hospital groups (Ibn-i Sina, Cebeci), so a meaningful share of this address space is clinical and administrative IT rather than research or student networking — a common pattern for European and Middle Eastern universities with attached teaching hospitals.
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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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS8517 | National Academic Network and Information Center | 893 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 22.27K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TR | Turkey | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8678- Registry name
- ANKARA-NET
- Registrant
- ANKARA-NET-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ankara.edu.tr
- Registered
- 2001-12-07
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 14 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 14 authorising AS8678
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS8678
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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