Autonomous system
AS45018 RIPN-RU-VLV
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
MSK-IX
exchange infrastructure russia peering
The AS handle RIPN-RU-VLV is held by MSK-IX (Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX").
What it's used for
- The address space carries infrastructure for an internet exchange, evidenced by netnames
RIPN-VLV-RU-NET,MSK-IX, andRU-MSK-IX-19960719associated with the MSK-IX NOC. - The AS announces 768 IPv4 addresses across 3 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, with 7 observed neighbours, indicating a role focused on peering and exchange infrastructure rather than large-scale residential access or transit.
- Traffic from this AS consists of peering sessions and exchange infrastructure traffic for MSK-IX, a major Russian internet exchange.
Notable
- Registrants align with the announcer, consistently identifying MSK-IX and its NOC across all listed prefixes.
- The address inventory is small and specific, consisting of three /24 IPv4 blocks and two /48 IPv6 blocks, typical for an exchange operator's infrastructure.
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 Vladivostok | Vladivostok, Russia | 193.232.136.32 |
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 3 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS45018- Registry name
- RIPN-RU-VLV
- Registrant
- Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"
- Abuse contact
- ip@msk-ix.ru
- Registered
- 2008-04-22
- Last changed
- 2019-02-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 80% valid · 4 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS45018
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS45018
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: 432 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