Autonomous system
AS17561 LCS-AS-AP LARUS Limited
Unclassified APNIC
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 | 80.81.195.230 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.47 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 0 downstream and 10 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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 272 prefixes · 220K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 272 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS17561- Registry name
- LCS-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Larus Limited
- Abuse contact
- t.t.xu@larus.net
- Registered
- 2024-06-06
- Last changed
- 2024-06-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- LARUS Limited
- Scope
- Global
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-LARUS- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Website
- https://larus.net/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100.0% valid · 2,404 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 15,793 authorising AS17561
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 89% registered · 2,143 of 2,405 announcements 60 other origin
- Route objects
- 8,534 naming AS17561
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
3 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
156.251.172.166 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
156.251.172.167 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
156.251.172.168 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere