Autonomous system
AS12724 LASERNET-AS LaserNet - research network of the Institutes of
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
LaserNet (Prokhorov General Physics Institute)
research education
Its reverse DNS answers with a name that has no domain attached to it at all.
What it's used for
- The research network of an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 4,096 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole inventory is
82.179.96.0/20, netnameLASERNET. - The registrant is the Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.
- One sampled address of three answered, as
GPI-LASERNET-5. - The AS name field is cut off mid-phrase:
LaserNet - research network of the Institutes of.
Interesting
GPI-LASERNET-5is a single label with no dots. Every other name in this collection is a fully qualified domain, ending in a real suffix, because that is what the specifications call for and what resolvers expect. A bare label in a reverse record is not resolvable back to anything, which makes it a comment rather than a name: it identifies the machine to whoever reads it and to nothing else.- The truncated AS name is the same phenomenon in the registry. Somebody wrote a full sentence describing the network into a field with a fixed length, and every routing tool in the world now displays the first half of it.
- A
/20for one physics institute, held under one netname with no date, is late-nineties academic allocation practice. Research institutes were early and were given room, and the block has stayed exactly as it was ever since.
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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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 4.10K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12724- Registry name
- LASERNET-AS
- Registrant
- LASERNET-MNT
- Abuse contact
- postmaster@gpi.ru
- Registered
- 2002-09-13
- Last changed
- 2025-01-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS12724
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS12724
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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