Autonomous system
AS8299 INFOTEL-AS Moscow, Russia
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
JSC Infotel
isp enterprise legacy
INFOTEL-AS is JSC Infotel, a Moscow telecommunications operator in business since 1992. It is a business-only provider: its services are sold to legal entities, and its best-known role is providing banks and credit institutions with access to the Central Bank of Russia's electronic interaction system.
What it's used for
- Data connectivity for Russian financial institutions, principally the authorised link between commercial banks and the Central Bank's automated settlement and document-exchange network.
- General corporate connectivity and hosting for legal entities. The AS announces the
195.170.216.0/21out of Infotel's older195.170.192.0/19holding. - Reverse DNS is thin and split between operator infrastructure (
msk3-br1.infotel.ru,m9-7-esw-1.infotel.ru, them9naming pointing at the M9 carrier hotel on Butlerova Street) and a few customer hosts on unrelated Russian domains.
Notable
- Not an eyeball network. There are no subscriber pools here, and the operator states plainly that it does not serve individuals. Addresses should be read as corporate and financial-sector infrastructure in Moscow.
- The AS is small and single-purpose by the standards of its low number: one routed
/21and no downstream customer cone worth speaking of.
Interesting
- Infotel became briefly newsworthy in June 2023 when its network was knocked offline in a cyberattack, disrupting the connection between Russian banks and the Central Bank. It is an unusually load-bearing network for its size.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS12722 | RECONN LLC | 65 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8299- Registry name
- INFOTEL-AS
- Registrant
- INFOTEL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@infotel.ru
- Registered
- 2002-07-16
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8299
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS8299
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 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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