Autonomous system
AS16256 RECOM-AS
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
MTS PJSC
telecom mobile isp
The netnames spell the brand with a c and the hostnames spell it with a k.
What it's used for
- A carrier's regional network. Thirteen IPv4 prefixes announced from the Russian Federation, no IPv6, eight thousand nine hundred and sixty addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- Four blocks carry the regional brand as a netname in mixed case, and a fifth adds four letters for the mobile data standard, which dates the registration precisely.
- Five more use the parent carrier's scheme: a country code, three letters for a predecessor, and a full date, with dates spanning five years.
- One block breaks both patterns with three letters, the word for television and the word for a network.
- Every block carries the same abuse contact, whose label pairs the predecessor's initials with a proper noun that appears in no other field.
- Two of eighteen queried addresses answered. Both sit on a domain that spells the regional brand with a different consonant than every netname does.
- One is a gateway named after an object; the other pairs the mobile data standard with a gateway label and the last octet, in mixed case.
Interesting
- A brand spelled one way in the registry and another in DNS usually means the domain was registered first, by whoever could get it, and the paperwork followed the company's own preference later.
- Thirteen blocks behind one upstream, all under a parent's abuse contact, is a regional operator that kept its name and stopped being a separate network.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS8359 | MTS PJSC | 458 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 13 prefixes · 8.96K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS16256- Registry name
- ReCom-AS
- Registrant
- MR-Center-MTS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@mtu.ru
- Registered
- 2004-08-04
- Last changed
- 2021-08-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16256
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS16256
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: 447 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