AS10161 — QIA-AS-KR QIA
AS10161 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.
About this network
QIA-AS-KR is a small South Korean autonomous system registered simply as QIA. The strongest reading of that abbreviation in a Korean context is the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (검역본부), the national quarantine and inspection body under the agriculture ministry, which uses the qia.go.kr domain.
What it's used for
- On the balance of evidence, a single public-sector office network: the agency's own web presence and administrative systems, single-sited and NATed behind a small public block.
Notable
The identification is deliberately hedged, because a three-letter handle is evidence in neither direction and the registry gives no expanded legal name here. What the pack does settle is the role. There is exactly one announced IPv4 prefix, 211.241.91.0/24 — 256 addresses — and two observed BGP neighbours, with no IPv6. That is a dual-homed end site: it takes transit from two upstreams for resilience and announces one legacy /24 back. Nothing about it can be an access network (there is no space to hand out), a hosting provider (a /24 is not a product) or a carrier (two adjacencies is not a peering estate). Whoever the holder turns out to be, this AS exists so one organisation's public services keep a stable address block across two providers.
The .go.kr association behind the QIA abbreviation is what tips it to government rather than business, and it is recorded here at low confidence precisely because the routing evidence alone cannot distinguish the two.
Interesting
- The quarantine agency in its current form dates from a 2011 merger, so the AS and its /24 almost certainly predate the name now attached to them.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.
Announced prefixes
- 211.241.91.0/24
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