Autonomous system
AS9494 KOSINET-AS-KR - National Infomation Society Agency
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
National Information Society Agency (NIA)
government research education legacy
AS9494 (KOSINET-AS) is registered to the National Information Society Agency — NIA, the South Korean government's statutory agency for national informatisation, founded in 1987 as the National Computerization Agency and renamed to its current form in 2020. It is the body that has historically built and overseen Korea's public-sector networks and broadband policy programmes.
What it's used for
The routing is distinctive. AS9494 originates 32 IPv4 prefixes totalling 8,192 addresses — and almost every one is an individual /24, packed into a contiguous run of 202.30.64.0 through 202.30.95.0, with one outlier at 203.254.52.0/24. Thirty-two /24s announced separately rather than as a single aggregate is the signature of address space that has been sub-delegated: each /24 sits with a different downstream site or institution, and the agency announces them individually rather than covering them with one route.
One observed BGP neighbour and no IPv6. A single upstream with no peering means this is not transit or wholesale in any sense; the AS exists to originate the agency's own allocations. The combination — a public-sector holder, a legacy 202.30/16-derived range broken into per-site /24s, one upstream — reads as a government network numbering a set of public institutions rather than a network serving the general public or hosting customers.
Notable
- NIA's remit (public-sector IT, national network build-out, digital-divide programmes) makes it a plausible custodian of address space used by many small public bodies, which fits the per-/24 announcement pattern.
- The
KOSINEThandle is a registry artefact and is not independently attested as a current service brand; the holder record, not the handle, is what identifies this network.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS9318 | SK Broadband Co Ltd | 2,016 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 9 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KR | Korea, Republic of | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9494- Registry name
- KOSINET-AS-KR
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@nic.or.kr
- Registered
- 1999-02-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 32 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9494
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 32 of 32 announcements
- Route objects
- 49 naming AS9494
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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