Autonomous system
AS3316 RELARN Research & Education Network
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
MSK-IX (RELARN research and education network)
research legacy
Registered as RELARN — "Research & Education Network", Moscow — and now held by the joint-stock company that operates MSK-IX, the Moscow Internet Exchange.
What it's used for
- Historically the routing identity of RELARN, the association that connected Russian research and academic institutions to the internet.
- Today it sits with the MSK-IX organisation, whose main business is running Russia's largest internet exchange and the associated network services.
Notable
- An exchange-point operator is an unusual holder for an academic AS handle; the RELARN name has simply been carried forward on the registration rather than renamed.
- The block is a research-era allocation (roughly 11,000 IPv4 addresses), much larger than a modern exchange operator would be issued.
Interesting
- The handle is a small artefact of how the Russian internet grew: academic networks came first, and the commercial interconnect infrastructure was built by the same people around them.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.208.34 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 31 prefixes · 11.01K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 33 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3316- Registry name
- RELARN
- Registrant
- Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"
- Abuse contact
- ip@msk-ix.ru
- Registered
- 2001-10-08
- Last changed
- 2020-04-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 79% valid · 26 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 27 authorising AS3316
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 33 of 33 announcements
- Route objects
- 36 naming AS3316
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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