Autonomous system
AS9489 KARINET-AS Korea Aerospace Research Institute
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
research government education legacy
AS9489 (KARINET-AS) is held by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, South Korea's national aerospace research organisation. KARI is based in the Daedeok science cluster in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, and works on launch vehicles, satellites, satellite-data applications and aeronautics.
What it's used for
This is a government research institute's own network, not a service provider. The AS originates 9 IPv4 prefixes carrying 65,920 addresses, and the shape of that holding is the interesting part: the bulk is a single legacy class-B, 150.197.0.0/16, with six /24 more-specifics punched out of it (150.197.6.0/24, 150.197.10.0/24, 150.197.226.0/24, 150.197.243.0/24, 150.197.244.0/24, 150.197.249.0/24) plus two blocks from unrelated Korean space (118.128.121.0/24 and a /25 at 211.180.135.0/25). The more-specifics alongside a covering aggregate are ordinary internal traffic engineering — steering particular sites or services out a chosen path.
Two observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6. A network sitting on 65k addresses with two peers is definitionally not a carrier: the address count is an early-allocation artefact, and the peering count says it takes transit and originates only its own space. Everything here is consistent with a single institute's campus and laboratory network, plus a small amount of externally-numbered space (the 118.128 and 211.180 blocks) picked up later, probably for a satellite ground station or an off-campus facility.
Notable
- KARI is a government-funded research institute; its network is public-sector infrastructure rather than a commercial one.
- The
/25announcement (211.180.135.0/25) is at the edge of what most operators will accept — many filter longer than /24 — so it is likely only usable within a specific upstream relationship.
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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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 24 prefixes · 65.92K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 24 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9489- Registry name
- KARINET-AS-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1999-02-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 9 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9489
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 78% registered · 7 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS9489
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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