Autonomous system
AS12714 MEGAFON-AS Moscow, Russia
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
MegaFon
mobile isp telecom
1.18 million addresses in 330 announcements, and a netname carrying a date with a digit too many.
What it's used for
- Mobile and fixed access for a Russian national operator. 1,184,768 addresses in 330 IPv4 prefixes, two IPv6 prefixes, and 15 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The largest single announcement is
176.194.0.0/15, 131,072 addresses. - Dated netnames run
RU-MEGAFON-20060216,20080818,20100708,20101118and20110705. - One reads
RU-MEGAFON-201204102, nine digits where the others use eight. - Two acquired broadband operators show up as
TI-BBandNBN-NET, and two blocks are registered to Net By Net Holding LLC underRU-TI-BB-20160221. - The IPv6 announcements are two
/32s:2a00:d18::/32and2a00:16d0::/32.
Interesting
- That nine-digit netname is a typing slip preserved in the public record. Nothing validates the field, nothing depends on it parsing, and so an extra keystroke from whoever filed the block in April 2012 has been served to the world ever since. Every convention that relies on humans formatting a free-text field accumulates these.
- Fifteen neighbours for 1.18 million addresses is one of the most lopsided ratios here, and it is the mobile operator's shape exactly. Subscribers consume, and the network needs a handful of large transit relationships rather than many small ones.
- Two IPv6
/32s against 330 IPv4 prefixes tells the rest of the story. The v4 estate was assembled from hundreds of separate purchases and allocations over twenty years; the v6 estate was requested twice, in the right size, and needs nothing further.
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
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 2001:7f8::31aa:0:1 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.160 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 11 downstream and 13 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS31133 | PJSC MegaFon | 18,582 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 330 prefixes · 1.15M addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 332 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12714- Registry name
- MEGAFON-AS
- Registrant
- MEGAFON-RIPE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse-mailbox@megafon.ru
- Registered
- 2002-07-18
- Last changed
- 2026-05-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 315 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 353 authorising AS12714
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 315 of 315 announcements
- Route objects
- 383 naming AS12714
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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