Autonomous system
AS5387 NSC
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
NSCNET (Novosibirsk Scientific Center)
education research legacy
NSC is the network of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center in Akademgorodok, the academic town of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The RIPE object still carries its original description, the Akademgorodok Internet Project.
What it's used for
- Connectivity for the research institutes, computing centres, and university facilities clustered in Akademgorodok, on the southern edge of Novosibirsk.
- Peering at NSK-IX, the Novosibirsk internet exchange, alongside upstream transit.
Notable
- An academic network. Its address space serves institutes and their staff rather than commercial subscribers.
- The registration has passed to a limited company operating the network, but the routing policy and the institutional customer base still reflect its origins in the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences.
Interesting
- The RIPE object credits the International Science Foundation alongside the Academy, a reminder that several Russian academic networks were first brought online in the 1990s with outside scientific funding.
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 Novosibirsk | Novosibirsk, Russia | 193.232.87.38 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 24 prefixes · 15.10K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5387- Registry name
- NSC
- Registrant
- CT-C-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ct-consulting.ru
- Registered
- 2002-01-23
- Last changed
- 2025-07-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 21 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS5387
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 21 of 21 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS5387
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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