Autonomous system
AS3267 NIKS
Education RIPE
Summary
NIKS (National Research Computer Network of Russia)
education research legacy
niks is the National Research Computer Network of Russia, registered to the Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" in Moscow.
What it's used for
- Backbone connectivity for Russia's research and education community: universities, Academy of Sciences institutes, and national research centres.
- Linking supercomputer centres that make up the country's national supercomputing infrastructure.
Notable
- NIKS holds the formal status of Russia's National Research and Education Network (NREN), so this is academic infrastructure rather than a commercial ISP.
- It carries a large block of address space for a research network, reflecting a national-scale membership rather than a single campus.
Interesting
- NIKS peers with the pan-European research network GÉANT and interconnects with NORDUnet, the Nordic research network, giving Russian institutions a path into the international R&E networking fabric.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.208.44 |
| MSK-IX St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg, Russia | 194.226.102.36 |
| MSK-IX Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk, Russia | 193.232.87.52 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 60 downstream and 99 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS31500 | Global Network Management Inc | 2,834 |
| AS20485 | Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom | 606 |
| AS6939 | Hurricane Electric LLC | 602 |
| AS3216 | PJSC "Vimpelcom" | 540 |
| AS37721 | Virtual Technologies & Solutions | 100 |
| AS24482 | SG.GS | 98 |
| AS49673 | Truenetwork LLC | 91 |
| AS208972 | GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI | 88 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 84 prefixes · 119K addresses IPv6 7 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 91 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
as3267- Registry name
- niks
- Registrant
- INFR-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rasnet.ru
- Registered
- 2002-09-09
- Last changed
- 2026-03-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 85% valid · 85 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 61 authorising AS3267
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 100 of 100 announcements
- Route objects
- 104 naming AS3267
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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