AS2117 — Garching, Germany

AS2117 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 20,480 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental astronomy organisation headquartered in Garching bei München, Germany.

What it's used for

• Networking for ESO's headquarters and its research and data operations supporting telescopes in Chile.

Notable

• A scientific research organisation, not a commercial provider; its upstream is Germany's research network DFN (AS680).

Interesting

• The allocation dates to 1993, and the "Garching, Germany" clue points to ESO's campus there, not the neighbouring Max Planck computing centre.

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Announced prefixes

• 134.171.0.0/18
• 134.171.64.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS680 Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.

Adjacent networks

• AS680 Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.