Autonomous system
AS12938 IBCH
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
IBCH RAS
research education infrastructure
A chemistry institute on 512 addresses, whose one visible machine is a mail server.
What it's used for
- The network of a bioorganic chemistry institute within a national academy of sciences. 512 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, a single observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole inventory is
194.85.8.0/23, netnameIBCH. - The netname is a bare acronym with no country prefix and no date.
- The registrant name runs to nine words before the institute's own name appears.
- First observed in the routing archive in April 2016.
- One of three sampled addresses returned a name:
mail1.ibch.ru.
Interesting
- A bare netname with no country code and no date is an early-convention record. The prefixed and dated forms became common later, so an unadorned acronym marks a registration made before anyone standardised the field, or by someone who ignored the standard.
- The one machine answering is
mail1, which is the most honest possible summary of what a small research institute puts on the public internet. Mail has to be reachable from outside because that is how collaboration works. Almost nothing else does. - The
194.85range holds a great deal of Russian academic space allocated in the 1990s, and institutes were given /23s and /24s out of it individually. Address space distributed by institution rather than by demand leaves each one with a small independent block and its own AS, which is why academies of sciences appear in routing data as dozens of tiny networks. - The full registrant name is longer than most companies' entire records.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS3267 | SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE" | 60 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12938- Registry name
- IBCH
- Registrant
- IBCH-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ivosi@ibch.ru
- Registered
- 2015-09-23
- Last changed
- 2024-06-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12938
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS12938
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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