Autonomous system
AS12406 BN-AS Belarussian data communication service provider.
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Business Network
isp hosting business legacy
A Belarusian commercial data provider, carrying its own space and the state operator's.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity and hosting. 20,480 addresses over 19 IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6
/32, 42 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Most netnames follow one dated stem,
BY-BN, from990917on the original/20through20081015,20100722,20110223and20160708. - Two blocks belong to a hosting business instead:
HOSTERBYandHOSTERBY-CLOUD-3, the second registered to Reliable Software, Ltd. Its addresses answer as178-172-138-254.hosterby.com. - One prefix breaks the pattern entirely.
194.158.194.0/23isBY-BELPAK-980728, registered to Beltelecom, the state telecommunications enterprise.
Interesting
- That Beltelecom block is the interesting object in the record. Belarus routed its international connectivity through the state operator for most of the country's internet history, and commercial providers built their businesses on top of that arrangement rather than around it. A state-registered
/23announced inside a private ISP's AS is what the relationship looks like in the data. - Nineteen prefixes for 20,480 addresses means an average block of about a thousand. This network was assembled from whatever was available across two decades, and each netname date marks another visit to the registry.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 24 prefixes · 20.48K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BY | Belarus | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12406- Registry name
- BN-AS
- Registrant
- AS12406-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ripe@bn.by
- Registered
- 2002-01-09
- Last changed
- 2026-06-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 26% valid · 5 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS12406
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 17 of 19 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS12406
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere