AS6879 — ENSTINET-

Network type: education

AS6879 announces 9 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,144 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

ENSTINET-EG is the Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network, operated under the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). It serves as Egypt's national research and education network (NREN).

What it's used for

• Connectivity and information services for Egyptian universities and national research centres, plus access to the international research networks that NRENs interconnect with.
• Hosting of national scholarly infrastructure such as scientific repositories and the Egyptian ISSN centre.

Notable

• The AS is a research and education network, not a commercial ISP. Its announced space is a long run of /24s inside 195.43.0.0/16.
• Reverse DNS on those prefixes still resolves under EUnet.eg.net and Egyptian government domains, reflecting ENSTINET's role at the junction of academia and the state.

Interesting

• The ASN is registered in AFRINIC while sitting in an AS-number block otherwise administered by the RIPE NCC. That is a fingerprint of an early allocation made before AFRINIC existed as a separate registry, later transferred to it along with the rest of Africa's resources.

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

Announced prefixes

• 195.43.0.0/21
• 195.43.8.0/23
• 195.43.11.0/24
• 195.43.12.0/22
• 195.43.16.0/22
• 195.43.20.0/24
• 195.43.22.0/23
• 195.43.25.0/24
• 195.43.26.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS21320 GEANT Vereniging
• AS8452 IDDQD-AS
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging

Downstream networks

• AS2561 Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)

Adjacent networks

• AS21320 GEANT Vereniging
• AS8452 IDDQD-AS
• AS11537 Internet2
• AS2561 Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)
• AS20965 GEANT Vereniging