CheckNet.

Network (ASN)

Who runs a network, the IP ranges it announces and the networks it connects through. Type the network number, like AS44244.

What is an autonomous system (AS)?

The internet is made of thousands of independent networks: mobile operators, internet providers, universities and big services. Each has a network number and tells the others which IP ranges are its own. Routers around the world use those announcements to find the way to any IP.

To reach the rest of the internet, networks pass through bigger upstream ones. In Iran most operators reach the outside only through the national infrastructure network, and seeing a network’s upstreams shows where its traffic goes.