AS18125 — MAFFIN Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network

AS18125 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MAFFIN is the research network operated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.

What it's used for

• The space carries the ministry's research infrastructure, identified by the netname JAPAN150 and the registry handle MAFFIN Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Network.
• It announces 65536 IPv4 addresses across a single /16 prefix (150.26.0.0/16) and maintains 14 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a dedicated institutional network rather than a transit provider.

Notable

• The RDAP registrant for the announced prefix is IRT-JPNIC-JP (Japan Network Information Center), which is the standard registry for Japanese address space and aligns with the Japanese government holder.
• The address inventory consists of a single contiguous /16 block, indicating a unified internal estate for the ministry's operations.

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

Announced prefixes

• 150.26.0.0/16

Upstream networks

• AS2907 Research Organization of Information and Systems, National Institute of Informatics
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS4713 NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS,Inc.
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS7660 Asia Pacific Advanced Network - Japan

Adjacent networks

• AS2907 Research Organization of Information and Systems, National Institute of Informatics
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS7660 Asia Pacific Advanced Network - Japan
• AS10010 TOKAI Communications Corporation
• AS4713 NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS,Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS38001 NewMedia Express Pte Ltd

Internet exchanges

• JPIX Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
• Network Service Provider IXP (Distributed IX in Edo) — Tokyo, Japan