Autonomous system
AS8461 ASN-TEX-KYIV
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Astelnet
isp legacy
Astelnet LLC (ASN-TEX-KYIV) — a small Kyiv-based network operator. The AS announces one provider-independent /23 (512 addresses).
What it's used for
- The prefix is in service and fully named, but the reverse DNS belongs to a different company: every sampled address resolves as
NN-216.mobicom.net.ua, the domain of Mobicom, a Kyiv telecom that rents fibre channels and sells data transmission and internet access. - So the registered holder and the operator visible in DNS are not the same entity. The space is being used by, or on behalf of, Mobicom.
Notable
- The holder-versus-rDNS mismatch is the main thing to know about this AS. It is not the address-broker pattern — one prefix, one RIR, coherent sequential naming across the whole range — but the registrant's name is not a safe label for the addresses.
- The
/23was registered to Astelnet only recently, which is consistent with a transfer of an existing, already-in-use block rather than a fresh deployment. - Tiny: 512 addresses and a couple of BGP neighbours.
Interesting
- The handle
ASN-TEX-KYIVmatches neither the current holder nor the network in the reverse DNS — a third name, from a third era. Old RIPE handles are archaeology, not identification.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-23, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| UA | Ukraine | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8461- Registry name
- ASN-TEX-KYIV
- Registrant
- ASTELNET-KYIV-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@astelnet.com.ua
- Registered
- 2002-10-07
- Last changed
- 2026-01-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8461
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS8461
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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