AS9871 KBE-AS-KR Gyeong Sang Buk-Do Office of Education

AS9871 (KBE-AS-KR) is registered to the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education, the provincial education authority for North Gyeongsang Province in South Korea, headquartered in Andong. It is the network of a school-district administrator, not a commercial ISP.

What it's used for

Korea's provincial Offices of Education are the government bodies that run the public school system in their province: they administer the schools, employ the teachers, and — relevant here — operate the data network that connects those schools and the education office's own systems. The routing evidence matches that role exactly. RIS sees 16 IPv4 prefixes carrying 9,472 addresses and no IPv6, and the AS is seen with only 3 BGP neighbours. A handful of neighbours means this network buys connectivity rather than selling it; the address count is far too small to be a carrier and far too large to be a single office. What it looks like is a consumer of transit distributing a modest, fragmented block of address space across a lot of school sites.

Notable

• The announced space is not one clean allocation but a scatter of small blocks from several ranges (117.111.128.0/20 down to a set of /23s and /24s in 61.x, 125.243.x, 58.29.x and 203.190.x), which is typical of an institution that has accreted address space over many years rather than being handed a single delegation.
• Every Korean province and metropolitan city has its own Office of Education, and several of them hold their own low-numbered ASNs — this is one of that family, not a national education backbone.
• It carries no IPv6 in the global table.