AS8466 — BILKENT

Network type: education

AS8466 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 65,536 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University (BILKENT) is a private research university in Ankara, Turkey, and one of the country's earliest and best-known internet sites.

What it's used for

• Campus networking for the university: faculty and departmental systems, student labs and residence halls, library services and research computing.
• Hosting for university-run web, mail and DNS services.

Notable

• Announces a single legacy /16 (about 65,000 addresses), the classic shape of an early university allocation rather than a modern, fragmented one.
• Reverse DNS across the block lands on bilkent.edu.tr, including router names under the campus computer centre, confirming this is institutional campus space and not a commercial ISP.

Interesting

• Bilkent was among the first Turkish institutions on the internet, and both the low AS number and the unbroken /16 are artifacts of that early-1990s academic wave.

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

Announced prefixes

• 139.179.0.0/16

Upstream networks

• AS8517 National Academic Network and Information Center

Adjacent networks

• AS8517 National Academic Network and Information Center