AS8684 — PSU-AS

Network type: education

AS8684 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,352 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Perm State National Research University (PSU-AS) — the classical university of Perm, in the Russian Urals, founded in 1916 and one of the institutions granted "national research university" status. The AS carries the campus network behind psu.ru.

What it's used for

• Campus connectivity: about 4,350 IPv4 addresses across a small, contiguous 212.192.64.0/20 allocation, plus one IPv6 /48. rDNS is entirely first-party psu.ru — building networks (Korp5-NET.psu.ru, i.e. korpus, a campus block), gateway routers (gw-net64.psu.ru), named servers, and a legacy Dialup-NET.psu.ru / dialup-gw.psu.ru remnant of modem-era access.
• Faculty and student services, university-hosted servers, and research groups. There is no subscriber, hosting or commercial-customer naming anywhere in the space.

Notable

• A small, single-purpose institutional network: three BGP neighbours, one contiguous block, no downstreams. That is the classic profile of a university AS that buys transit and announces only its own campus.
• The addresses should be read as institutional — offices, labs, lecture halls, halls of residence — not as consumer eyeball space, even though student traffic flows through them.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.192.64.0/20
• 212.192.80.0/24
• 2001:b08:18::/48

Upstream networks

• AS9049 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"

Adjacent networks

• AS9049 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"