AS15948 — ICEHT Forth

AS15948 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,024 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The one answering host is named after a branch of chemistry.

What it's used for

• A research institute's network. Three IPv4 prefixes announced from Greece, no IPv6, one thousand and twenty-four addresses, through a single observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The holder string carries a slash in the middle of its initials, then a lower-case description of what the institute studies, with no company or legal form anywhere.
• The AS handle drops the slash and adds the parent research foundation's short name.
• All three blocks share one netname, the initials without the slash, and one registrant, those initials followed by the letters for a network operations centre.
• Nine addresses were queried and one answered, with a scientific process as the host label, then the institute, then the foundation, then the country code.
• Three prefixes across two ranges, behind a single upstream.

Interesting

• The name places the machine in an organisation chart and a research programme at once: four labels going from what the machine works on, through the institute, to the foundation that funds it. Nothing in it says what the machine is, which is the opposite of how commercial networks name things.
• Research institutes almost always sit behind one upstream, because their connectivity comes from a national academic network rather than a market. Redundancy is somebody else's problem, one layer up.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 194.177.193.0/24
• 195.251.205.0/24
• 195.251.206.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS5408 National Infrastructures for Research and Technology S.A.

Adjacent networks

• AS5408 National Infrastructures for Research and Technology S.A.