Autonomous system
AS9157 SAO-RAS
Education RIPE
Summary
Special Astrophysical Observatory (SAO RAS)
education research legacy
SAO-RAS is the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a federal research institute in the North Caucasus that operates the BTA-6 optical telescope and the RATAN-600 radio telescope.
What it's used for
The AS announces 194.85.27.0/24 and 62.76.38.0/23 (~768 addresses) with a single observed neighbour. Sampled reverse DNS resolves under sao.ru (Core1.SAO.ru, cheetah.sao.ru), i.e. the observatory's own campus and scientific-computing hosts.
Notable
- This is a scientific research institution rather than a network operator; the tiny footprint and single upstream are typical of an academic site connected through a national research network.
- Reverse DNS names infrastructure and named hosts on
sao.ru, consistent with institutional research use, not subscriber or commercial service.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9157- Registry name
- SAO-RAS
- Registrant
- Federal State Budget Institution The Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russia's Academy of Sciences
- Abuse contact
- noc@sao.ru
- Registered
- 2002-03-09
- Last changed
- 2023-09-11
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere