Autonomous system
AS40966 L7GUARD-AS L7GUARD Network
Hosting RIPE Content
Summary
L7Guard
hosting business russia
L7GUARD-AS is operated by L7Guard, a Russian web hosting and security provider.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting and web services, evidenced by netnames
RU-BIGWEB-20140819,VALUEHOST-SPB1-NET,VALUEHOST-MSK1-NET,VALUEHOST-CLD, andVALUEHOST-CLD-RU. - Reverse DNS entries include
BIGWEB-cust.l7guard.xyz,v28.valuehost.ru, anduvds83mail.valuehost.ru, confirming the use of the space for customer hosting and mail services. - The AS announces 2816 IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes and maintains 19 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a hosting provider exchanging traffic with multiple upstreams and peers rather than a large access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web hosting, mail services, and related business endpoints for L7Guard's customers.
Notable
- Registrants for the announced prefixes include
ZAO Web Hosting,L7Guard IP Registry,Web Hosting RIPE Admin, andUtransit Net RIPE Admin, all aligned with the L7Guard/ValueHOST brand. - The address inventory is composed of five distinct IPv4 blocks, including a /22 and four smaller blocks, all located in the Russian Federation.
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 6 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.210.136 |
| MSK-IX St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg, Russia | 194.226.102.33 |
| MSK-IX Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk, Russia | 193.232.87.91 |
| MSK-IX Ekaterinburg | Ekaterinburg, Russia | 194.85.107.48 |
| MSK-IX Rostov-on-Don | Rostov-on-Don, Russia | 193.232.140.61 |
| MSK-IX Vladivostok | Vladivostok, Russia | 193.232.136.41 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 2 downstream and 13 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 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 2.82K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS40966- Registry name
- L7GUARD-AS
- Registrant
- lir-ru-bigweb-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bigweb.host
- Registered
- 2006-05-23
- Last changed
- 2026-07-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ValueHOST
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
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% valid · 11 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS40966
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS40966
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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