AS8524 — eg-auc

Network type: education

AS8524 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,352 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS8524 is held by The American University in Cairo (AUC), the private English-language university in Egypt whose main campus is in New Cairo. The RIPE handle on its address space is eg-auc.

What it's used for

• Campus networking for AUC: faculty and student systems, libraries, laboratories and the university's public-facing services.
• The AS announces about 4,300 addresses, carved as a long run of consecutive 213.181.22x–24x /24s out of the university's own 213.181.224.0 allocation.

Notable

• The RIPE object describes the block plainly as an Enterprise Local Registry assigned to the university — the address space is registered to AUC itself, not routed on its behalf by an Egyptian carrier, which is unusual for a university in the region and reflects an early, direct membership.
• Sampled addresses publish no public reverse DNS. A campus that keeps PTR records internal is common; what matters here is that nothing in the block looks like provider or subscriber space, and the AS has only four BGP neighbours.

Interesting

• AUC has been one of Egypt's earliest and most persistent internet sites, which is how a single university ended up holding a four-digit AS number and its own contiguous /19-sized allocation.

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

Announced prefixes

• 213.181.224.0/22
• 213.181.228.0/23
• 213.181.230.0/24
• 213.181.232.0/21
• 213.181.240.0/24
• 213.181.245.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS24835 Vodafone Data
• AS8452 IDDQD-AS
• AS24863 Link Egypt (Link.NET)
• AS55002 F5, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS24835 Vodafone Data
• AS8452 IDDQD-AS
• AS24863 Link Egypt (Link.NET)
• AS55002 F5, Inc.