Autonomous system
AS5568 RBNET
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
RBNet (Russian Backbone Network) / MSK-IX
research education legacy
RBNet is the Russian Backbone Network, the interdepartmental backbone that connects Russia's regional science and education networks. It was built by RIPN (RosNIIROS, the Russian Institute for Public Networks) and is registered today to the joint-stock company behind MSK-IX.
What it's used for
- Backbone transit between regional research and education networks, with nodes spread across Russia's federal districts, rather than direct end-user access.
- The holder also operates MSK-IX, Russia's principal internet exchange, so this AS sits alongside exchange-point infrastructure rather than a commercial customer base.
Notable
- RIPN was the organisation that both ran the academic backbone and founded the Moscow exchange, an unusually direct link between a country's research network and its main peering fabric.
- The announced footprint is small for a backbone. That is expected: a transit AS for other networks carries routes, not large pools of its own addresses.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5568- Registry name
- RBNet
- Registrant
- Join-stock company "Internet Exchange"MSK-IX"
- Abuse contact
- ip@msk-ix.ru
- Registered
- 2002-09-12
- Last changed
- 2020-04-23
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere