AS8941 — MRSU-AS

Network type: education

AS8941 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,048 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MRSU-AS belongs to N. P. Ogarev's Mordovian State University (МГУ им. Н. П. Огарёва) in Saransk, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia. It is one of Russia's regional national research universities, and the AS carries the campus network run by the university's own Internet Center.

What it's used for

• Campus connectivity for faculties, research units, libraries and student services across the Saransk campuses.
• Public-facing university services. The rDNS that exists lands on university hosts such as pay.mrsu.ru, the payment portal, under the university's own mrsu.ru domain.

Notable

• The registry objects are unambiguous institutional ones: the organisation is the university itself, and the administrative and technical contacts sit in the "Internet Center, N. P. Ogarev's Mordovian State University" on Bolshevistskaya street in Saransk.
• Roughly 2,000 IPv4 addresses across a handful of prefixes, with only a couple of BGP neighbours. That is the shape of a single campus buying transit from regional providers, not a network that sells connectivity onward.
• Most of the space carries no delegated rDNS, which is common for a campus that numbers its internal estate behind NAT and exposes only a few named services.

Interesting

• One of the administrative contacts is registered to "fond Mordovia - Internet" — a regional internet foundation, a reminder that early Russian university networking was often organised through regional academic funds rather than the institutions alone.

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

Announced prefixes

• 85.143.20.0/22
• 194.54.64.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS12389 PJSC Rostelecom
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"

Adjacent networks

• AS12389 PJSC Rostelecom
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"