Autonomous system
AS8409 IITP-AS
Education RIPE
Summary
Kharkevich Institute (IITP RAS)
education research legacy
IITP-AS belongs to the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (the A. A. Kharkevich Institute, IITP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow. It is a small academic research network, not a service provider.
What it's used for
- Campus connectivity for the institute: its servers, laboratories and staff. The reverse DNS is unambiguous, with hosts resolving under
iitp.ru, including the institute's own nameserver. - Two prefixes only, roughly 768 addresses in total, with a couple of upstream research-network links.
Notable
- Institutional address space. Addresses here belong to a research institute and its people, not to consumer subscribers or to hosting customers, so they geolocate to a single Moscow campus rather than across a country.
- IITP works on information theory, coding, mathematical linguistics, bioinformatics and neuroscience: the "information transmission" in its name is the Shannon sense, and the institute traces back to the Soviet school of information theory.
Interesting
- Its prefixes still carry maintainer objects from the Russian academic networking bodies that originally connected the Academy of Sciences to the internet, which is the usual pattern for institutes that got online early through a national research network rather than a commercial ISP.
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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.
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 · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8409- Registry name
- IITP-AS
- Registrant
- IITP-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@iitp.ru
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2020-11-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8409
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS8409
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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