AS20965 GEANT Vereniging

Netherlands GEANT RIPE 1 IPv4 prefix 2 IPv6 prefixes
IPv4 addresses
8,192
IPv6 /48 networks
131,072
RPKI
3 valid0 no ROA
Peers and downstreams
80

Holder

AS name
GEANT
Description
The GEANT IP Service The GEANT Network Connects the European National Regional Education Networks (NRENs) together
Organisation
GEANT Vereniging
Registered in
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Abuse contact
cert@geant.org
Assigned
2001-07-11
Registered
2002-09-25
Record last changed
2026-09-08 13:17 UTC

Upstream graph

Upstreams and their upstreams, from BGP paths

Network health

Grade A · 90/100
pass Prefixes covered by valid ROAs
3 of 3 announced prefixes are RPKI valid.
25/25
pass No RPKI invalid announcements
None of the announcements is RPKI invalid.
10/10
pass Announces IPv6
2 IPv6 prefixes.
15/15
pass More than one upstream
5 upstreams seen in BGP.
10/10
pass Working abuse contact
cert@geant.org is published.
15/15
fail Publishes a geofeed
No geofeed found. Without one, location databases have to guess.
0/10
pass No prefixes smaller than /24 or /48
All prefixes are /24 (IPv4) or /48 (IPv6) or larger.
10/10
pass Registry record maintained
Last changed 2026-09-08.
5/5

Routing changes

Last 30 days
2026-10-04 14:45 UTCNew neighbour AS4538 downstream
2026-10-04 14:45 UTCNew neighbour AS23911 downstream

WHOIS

aut-num:        AS20965
as-name:        GEANT
org:            ORG-DLCU1-RIPE
descr:          The GEANT IP Service
descr:          The GEANT Network Connects the European National Regional Education Networks (NRENs) together
remarks:        GEANT Research and Education Network
remarks:        
remarks:        === BEGIN === INFORMATION ==========================================================
remarks:        NREN routes are marked with an informational community based on ASN.
remarks:        
remarks:        20965:<ASN> For 2-byte ASNs
remarks:        origin:<ASN>:20965 For 4-byte ASNs
remarks:        
remarks:        NRENs can block advertisements to other NRENs using a specific block community.
remarks:        
remarks:        64512:<ASN> For 2-byte destination ASNs
remarks:        origin:<ASN>:64512 For 4-byte destination ASNs
remarks:        
remarks:        NRENs are welcome to use specific communities to define how routes are advertised to R&E peers
remarks:        R&E Peers participate in the exchange of R&E traffic but are not part of the GEANT consortium
remarks:        Prepending is additive, combine communities to increase prepending.
remarks:        
remarks:        20965:0000 - Don't announce the routes to all R&E Peers
remarks:        20965:0010 - Prepend GEANT AS one time towards all R&E Peers
remarks:        20965:0020 - Prepend GEANT AS two times towards all R&E Peers
remarks:        20965:0030 - Prepend GEANT AS three times towards all R&E Peers
remarks:        20965:0060 - Prepend GEANT AS six times towards all R&E Peers
remarks:        
remarks:        Routes can be manipulated using per-peer communities
remarks:        Penultimate digit is used to govern route action
remarks:        20965:...0. - Block advertisement to R&E Peer
remarks:        20965:...1. - Prepend GEANT AS one time towards to R&E Peer
remarks:        20965:...2. - Prepend GEANT AS two times towards to R&E Peer
remarks:        20965:...3. - Prepend GEANT AS three times towards to R&E Peer
remarks:        20965:...6. - Prepend GEANT AS six times towards to R&E Peer
remarks:        
remarks:        20965:20.0 - SINET
remarks:        20965:30.0 - CANARIE
remarks:        20965:45.0 - UbuntuNet
remarks:        20965:50.0 - Internet2
remarks:        20965:60.0 - ESnet
remarks:        20965:80.0 - RedCLARA
remarks:        20965:85.0 - NISN
remarks:        20965:90.0 - TEIN
remarks:        20965:120.0 - SARInet/KAUST
remarks:        20965:150.0 - ASREN
remarks:        20965:160.0 - KREONET
remarks:        20965:170.0 - NKN
remarks:        20965:180.0 - IRANET
remarks:        20965:190.0 - OMREN
remarks:        20965:200.0 - KIAE
remarks:        20965:210.0 - SingAREN
remarks:        20965:220.0 - WACREN
remarks:        20965:230.0 - HBKU
remarks:        20965:240.0 - Maaen
remarks:        20965:250.0 - ANKABUT
remarks:        20965:260.0 - TENET
remarks:        20965:270.0 - NIKS
remarks:        20965:280.0 - UTIC
remarks:        20965:290.0 - T-SYSTEMS
remarks:        20965:300.0 - CSTNET
remarks:        20965:310.0 - CAREN
remarks:        20965:320.0 - AARNet
remarks:        20965:330.0 - ESTINET
remarks:        20965:340.0 - MARWAN
remarks:        20965:350.0 - HARNET
remarks:        20965:360.0 - ARN
remarks:        20965:370.0 - ASNET-TW
remarks:        20965:380.0 - SUM
remarks:        20965:390.0 - CERNET
remarks:        20965:400.0 - CNGI-6IX
remarks:        
remarks:        20965:0008 - RTBH service, /32 and /128 prefixes only
remarks:        20965:0001 - Routes heard with suspected commercial ASNs in the path.
remarks:        20965:0002 - Anycast Routing
remarks:        Anycast routes are identified by a prefix list and community filter and the local preference raised on backup links.
remarks:        NRENs who add this community will see no effect unless they also instruct us to add the route to our prefix-list.
remarks:        20965:0007 - Global Anycast Routing (Incl. DNS root servers)
remarks:        Global anycast routes are marked with the above community and accepted from NRENs.
remarks:        
remarks:        ===============
remarks:        R&E Peer Traffic Engineering
remarks:        ===============
remarks:        Peers are marked with the informational community 20965:65530
remarks:        
remarks:        Peers eligible for backup transit arrangements can announce prefixes to other R&E peers like so:
remarks:        64700:<ASN> For 2-byte ASNs
remarks:        origin:<ASN>:64700 For 4-byte ASNs
remarks:        
remarks:        20965:0007 - Global Anycast Routing (Incl. DNS root servers)
remarks:        Global anycast routes are rejected from R&E peers.
remarks:        
remarks:        === END === INFORMATION ==========================================================
remarks:        
remarks:        ===============
remarks:        GEANT R&E
remarks:        ===============
remarks:        Internal internal prefixes are given community 20965:155
remarks:        
remarks:        GEANT NRENs - National Regional Educational Networks
remarks:        NREN prefixes are given a LOCAL-PREF of 150 and community 20965:155
remarks:        
remarks:        AS7500 (DNS root name-server) is behind RENATER
remarks:        
remarks:        
remarks:        GEANT PEERS - non-NRENs who receive NREN routes:
remarks:        All Peers are accepted with a LOCAL-PREF of 100
remarks:        
remarks:        The following ASs are our non-NREN peers who receive NREN routes. All peers get all routes from AS-GEANTNRN and a subset of AS-GEANTNRENPEERS based on the agreed transit policy as highlighted by the communities below.
admin-c:        EJA2-RIPE
tech-c:         DANT-RIPE
status:         ASSIGNED
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-END-MNT
mnt-by:         DANTE-MNT
created:        2002-09-25T09:03:02Z
last-modified:  2026-09-08T13:17:09Z
source:         RIPE
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