Autonomous system
AS8342 RTCOMM-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
RTComm.RU
transit isp legacy
RTCOMM-AS — JSC RTComm.RU, a Russian data-network and IP-transit operator historically associated with the Rostelecom group and known for satellite- delivered internet in remote regions.
What it's used for
- IP transit and backbone connectivity for Russian ISPs, businesses and regional networks, alongside RTComm's own satellite and terrestrial access services.
- Its core address space (the large
81.176,81.177,195.161and217.107.208.0/20blocks) is registered directly to RTComm.RU, with router and infrastructure rDNS underrtcomm.ru.
Notable
- This is a carrier, not an eyeball network: the AS has dozens of BGP neighbours and originates prefixes for downstream networks rather than serving a subscriber base of its own.
- Alongside its own blocks, AS8342 also originates a long tail of scattered
/24prefixes registered to unrelated third parties (a Russian "Internet Technologies" LLC among others, some with hosting- and proxy-reseller contacts). Those ranges should be attributed to their registrants, not to RTComm — do not geolocate or label all AS8342 space as one operator.
Interesting
- rDNS across the AS is genuinely mixed — carrier routers, a regional cable operator, and small hosting customers all appear in the same origin — which is the normal shape of a Russian transit AS that lends its origin to customers.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
11 upstream, 5 downstream and 20 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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 99 prefixes · 309K addresses IPv6 50 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 149 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8342- Registry name
- RTCOMM-AS
- Registrant
- AS8342-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rtcomm.ru
- Registered
- 2002-09-10
- Last changed
- 2025-04-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 31% valid · 31 valid, 69 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 32 authorising AS8342
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 100 of 100 announcements
- Route objects
- 103 naming AS8342
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
1 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
77.83.117.245 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere