Autonomous system
AS12509 LB-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Latvijas Banka
finance government
Latvia's central bank on two /24s numbered one and two, with an IPv6 /48 and nothing else.
What it's used for
- Central bank connectivity. 512 addresses in two IPv4
/24s, one IPv6/48, and three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The two blocks are netnamed
LATVIJAS-BANKA-NET1andLATVIJAS-BANKA-NET2, both registered to LATVIJAS BANKA with the Bank of Latvia IT Department as contact. - They are not adjacent:
194.153.79.0/24and91.194.176.0/24come from entirely different parts of the address space. - The IPv6 announcement is a single
/48,2001:67c:368::/48. - Three neighbours for 512 addresses.
Interesting
NET1andNET2is the shortest naming scheme a network can have and still tell two things apart. It works because the bank knew there would never be aNET7— an institution with one building and one job does not need a taxonomy.- Two
/24s from unrelated blocks, years apart in the numbering, is what growth looks like for an organisation that grows very slowly. The first block came from the space available when it asked; the second from the space available the next time, with nothing adjacent left to extend into. - Three neighbours rather than one is the interesting number here. A central bank is a piece of national infrastructure, and the way that shows up in routing is redundancy at the edge rather than size.
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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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LV | Latvia | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12509- Registry name
- LB-AS
- Registrant
- AS12509-MNT
- Abuse contact
- Drosibasproblemuinformacija@bank.lv
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-03-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS12509
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS12509
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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