AS779

AS779 is a legacy autonomous system registered to GIP RENATER, France's National Research and Education Network (NREN) operator, and it currently announces zero IPv4 and zero IPv6 prefixes — Hurricane Electric and RIPEstat both confirm the ASN has not appeared in the global routing table since 2017-10-21. This is a dormant registration held by an operationally active organization, not a dead operator.

RENATER (Réseau National de Télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche) is a public-interest grouping (GIP) under French law — a government-affiliated non-profit consortium, not a commercial ISP. It runs a dark-fiber/DWDM backbone serving French universities, research bodies, and, via the RIE partnership, government ministries, and connects to the pan-European GÉANT research network.

RIPE RDAP's top-level autnum record shows a registration event of 2002-09-19 and a last-changed event of 2019-06-24; this is recorded here as the first-party RIR registration date. It likely reflects an ERX (Early Registration Transfer) event moving a legacy ARIN-block ASN into the RIPE database rather than AS779's original 1990s-era assignment — a third-party source (bgp.tools) separately claims "registered since 1993" for RENATER, uncorroborated by any RDAP event and not adopted as the recorded date.

Historically, AS779 last announced 193.48.117.0/24 on 2017-08-28, after first appearing with 193.55.126.0/24 in 2003; its two last-known IPv4 peers (circa 2017) were AS2200 and AS2089, both other Renater-affiliated ASNs. CAIDA ranks it 79,459 with a singleton customer cone (0 prefixes, 0 addresses) and zero upstreams. No PeeringDB net record exists for AS779, and no formal peering-policy statement was found on renater.fr, though RENATER operates its own IXP fabric (RENATERix: SFINX in Paris plus overseas exchanges GUYANIX, MARTINIX, MAYOTIX, and REUNIX). RENATER's currently routed production ASN appears to be the separate AS2076 ("RENATER NET"), making AS779 a legacy number under the same operator rather than its live network.

Operator

GIP RENATER (Groupement d'Intérêt Public RENATER — French National Research and Education Network) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/779, https://www.renater.fr/en/

Country / RIR

FR, RIPE NCC [Confirmed] — RIPE RDAP autnum record (handle FR-RENATER)

Allocated

2002-09-19 (RIPE RDAP top-level registration event; likely an ERX database-transfer date rather than original 1990s allocation — a third-party site claims "since 1993" but this is uncorroborated by any RDAP event); last changed 2019-06-24

[Confirmed for the RDAP event dates] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/779

Org status

active public-interest grouping (GIP) under French law — government-affiliated non-profit consortium, not a commercial ISP [Confirmed] — https://www.renater.fr/en/

Contacts

certsvp@renater.fr (abuse); registered entity address 23-25 Rue Daviel, 75013 Paris, France [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/779

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-31 — zero hits in two independent NANOG archive searches; dormant since 2017-10-21 limits live attack surface; Spamhaus/Talos/GreyNoise/AbuseIPDB returned 403 to automated access and remain unchecked

Network & routing

Network type

National Research and Education Network (NREN) for France; dark-fiber/DWDM backbone for higher education and research, connected to GÉANT; AS779 itself is legacy/dormant — live routing appears to run under AS2076 ("RENATER NET") [Confirmed for org type; Likely for AS2076 as the live ASN] — https://www.renater.fr/en/, https://bgp.he.net/AS779

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4 prefixes / 0 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses; not visible to any of ~328 RIS v4 peers or ~322 v6 peers [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status, CAIDA AS Rank, bgp.he.net, bgp.tools (2026-07)

Routing/peering

NOT currently announced; last visible 2017-10-21 (last prefix 193.48.117.0/24 on 2017-08-28); historical peers AS2200 and AS2089 (both Renater-affiliated) as of ~2017; no PeeringDB net record for AS779; no upstreams listed [Confirmed for routing history; Likely for peer set being exhaustive] — https://bgp.he.net/AS779, https://stat.ripe.net/AS779

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, so no ROAs to validate [Unknown] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS779

Notable usage

serves French higher-education and research institutions, the broader European research community via GÉANT, and French government ministries via the RIE partnership; RENATER also runs member collaboration services (videoconferencing, file transfer) [Confirmed] — https://www.renater.fr/en/

Related ASNs

AS2076 ("RENATER NET" — believed to be RENATER's currently routed production ASN); AS2200 and AS2089 (historical AS779 peers, also Renater-affiliated) [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS779

Analyst note

AS779 is a legacy, currently-dormant ASN belonging to an operationally active and reputable operator (RENATER, the French NREN); no PeeringDB record exists and RENATER's live routing appears to sit under the separate AS2076. Threat-intel platform coverage (Spamhaus/Talos/GreyNoise/AbuseIPDB) could not be completed this pass due to automated-access blocks — flagged as Unknown, not clean.