Autonomous system
AS3255 UARNET-AS UARNet-Eksintech
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
UARNet (LLC Eksintech)
education research legacy
UARNET-AS is UARNet, the Ukrainian Academic and Research Network, based in Lviv. The registry holder of record is LLC Eksintech, the company that operates the network today; the registry description still carries both the UARNet name and the older EARN-Ukraine reference.
What it's used for
- Connectivity for Ukrainian universities, institutes and research organisations, with UARNet acting as the academic network operator for the Lviv region and beyond.
- Commercial internet access alongside the academic role, which is common for research networks that grew into general-purpose providers.
Notable
- This is largely an institutional address: campuses, faculty networks and research systems, so much of the traffic from it is university rather than consumer.
- It buys transit from several tier-1 carriers, which gives an academic network in a mid-sized city surprisingly good international reach.
Interesting
- The
EARN-Ukrainefragment in the registry description points at EARN, the European academic networking effort that predated widespread commercial internet in the region. The ASN is a direct descendant of that lineage.
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 5 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Giganet Internet Exchange | Kyiv, Ukraine | 185.1.62.22 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Warsaw | Warsaw, Poland | 195.182.218.177 |
| ERA-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 185.1.240.223 |
| ERA-IX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 185.0.27.96 |
| GNM Internet Exchange Ukraine | Kiev, Ukraine | 178.18.230.54 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 176 downstream and 234 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 110 prefixes · 78.59K addresses IPv6 21 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| UA | Ukraine | 131 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3255- Registry name
- UARNET-AS
- Registrant
- lir-ua-eksintech-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@eksintech.net
- Registered
- 2001-12-04
- Last changed
- 2026-10-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 79% valid · 221 valid, 56 with no ROA 3 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 236 authorising AS3255
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 275 of 280 announcements 5 other origin
- Route objects
- 285 naming AS3255
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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