Autonomous System

AS8978 — ASN-HOLYSEE - Holy See - Vatican City State(VA)

Last fetched Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:02:21 GMT

AS8978 is an Autonomous System operated by ASN-HOLYSEE - Holy See - Vatican City State and registered in VA. As of Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:02:21 GMT, it announces 3 routed IP prefixes and peers with 6 other Autonomous Systems in the WhisperGraph BGP dataset.

Nutrition Label

Routing footprint

AS8978 announces 3 distinct routed prefixes. The 3-prefix sample below links to per-prefix pages with full conflict and reverse-DNS detail.

Peering ecosystem

6 distinct peers via BGP. The first 6 are listed below.

Peer ASN	Operator	Country
AS12874	FASTWEB - Fastweb SpA	IT
AS174	COGENT-174 - Cogent Communications, LLC	US
AS31543	MYNET-AS - myNet GmbH	AT
AS3356	LEVEL3 - Level 3 Parent, LLC	US
AS61160	ASN-VATLIB - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana	VA
AS6762	SEABONE-NET - TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.	IT

Blast radius

Count of dependent hostnames if AS8978 disappeared from the routing table.

Blast radius: Computing — check back later. The precompute pipeline refreshes this panel within a few days.

MOAS / hijack watch

Prefixes routed by AS8978 that another Autonomous System also announces. A non-empty list is one of the strongest BGP-hijack signals available without active probes.

No active MOAS conflicts. Every prefix announced by AS8978 is unique to AS8978 in the current routing snapshot.

Threat posture

Pivot deeper into the graph from AS8978.

Cypher and MCP

Reproduce the headline metric directly against graph.whisper.security:

MATCH (a:ASN {name: "AS8978"})-[:HAS_NAME]->(n:ASN_NAME)
OPTIONAL MATCH (a)-[:HAS_COUNTRY]->(c:COUNTRY)
RETURN a.name AS asn, n.name AS operator, c.name AS country

Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.