Autonomous system
AS9199 RENAM
Education RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
RENAM (Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova)
education research university transit legacy
AS9199 (RENAM) is held by the RENAM Public Association — the Research and Educational Networking Association of Moldova, the country's national research and education network (NREN). It is a non-commercial association whose job is to connect Moldova's universities, research institutes and other public institutions to each other and to the European research networks.
What it's used for
The routing evidence is a small NREN, and it reads cleanly. RIS sees 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses, one IPv6 /29 (2a04:7580::/29, a large allocation), and 17 observed BGP neighbours. Seventeen neighbours on only 4,096 addresses is the interesting ratio: this AS peers far more widely than its address count would suggest. That is exactly what an NREN does — it is a connector, aggregating a modest set of member institutions but maintaining relationships with local ISPs, the national exchange and the pan-European research backbone.
The reverse DNS makes the membership visible. Most addresses carry generic ip-81.180.x.y.renam.md PTRs, but the sub-domains name the institutions behind them: asm.renam.md (the Academy of Sciences of Moldova), usm.renam.md (Moldova State University), plus ns.ase.md and host5.ase.md on 81.180.68.0/23 — the Academy of Economic Studies running its own nameserver inside RENAM space. Numbering each member under its own label is a very NREN way to organise an address plan.
Notable
- RENAM connects the Academy of Sciences institutes, the leading universities and colleges, and some hospitals and government bodies.
- It represents Moldova in the pan-European research networking community.
- The IPv6
/29is far larger than the IPv4 footprint, typical of an NREN that took IPv6 seriously early and allocates generously to members.
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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
6 upstream, 3 downstream and 15 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MD | Moldova, Republic of | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9199- Registry name
- RENAM
- Registrant
- AS9199-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@renam.md
- Registered
- 2002-04-14
- Last changed
- 2025-12-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- RENAM
- Also known as
- RENAM
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-RENAM- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://renam.md/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 89% valid · 8 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS9199
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 8 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS9199
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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