Autonomous system
AS8330 LONAP LONAP Network AS8330 Policy
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
LONAP
ixp network legacy
LONAP is LONAP Ltd, the London Network Access Point — a member-owned internet exchange point in London. This AS number is the exchange's own network AS, used for the IXP's route servers, management systems and peering-LAN infrastructure.
What it's used for
- Running the exchange itself: route servers that let members exchange routes with each other, plus the AS8330 management network. Router interfaces carry
lonap.netreverse DNS such asvlanNNN-gw.lonap.net. - Addressing for the peering LANs and member-facing IP space. Much of the announced
/22-scale range carries placeholder rDNS (ipNN-NNN.no-dns-yet.lonap.net), which is what an exchange's unassigned or newly-assigned member addressing looks like. - LONAP has many BGP neighbours because its members peer across it, not because it sells transit. It is deliberately not a transit provider.
Notable
- An IXP has no honest kind in this vocabulary, so it is left unclassified. It is not hosting, not an ISP, not an eyeball network and not transit. It is shared switching fabric between other networks, and forcing it into a bucket would poison any classifier that consumed it.
- Traffic observed on LONAP's peering LAN belongs to its members. An address on the exchange fabric identifies a member's router port, not LONAP the company.
Interesting
- LONAP is one of the UK's long-running member-owned exchanges, and its low AS number reflects a founding in the era when London's peering landscape was being built out. Its neighbour count is a function of its members, not of any customer cone.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.80.250 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 0 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8330- Registry name
- LONAP
- Registrant
- AS8330-AUTO-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@lonap.net
- Registered
- 2002-07-04
- Last changed
- 2026-10-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS8330
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8330
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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