Autonomous system
AS8518 RFERL Radio Free Europe
Hosting RIPE Content
Summary
RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
enterprise media legacy
RFERL is the network of RFE/RL, Inc. — Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, the international broadcaster headquartered in Prague and funded by the U.S. Congress through the U.S. Agency for Global Media. It is a corporation, not a government department, but it is a public-service broadcaster rather than a commercial one.
What it's used for
- Publishing infrastructure for RFE/RL's language services: web origins, mail, firewalls, content-management systems and the sites of its regional brands.
- Roughly 8,400 addresses across a scattered set of RIPE and ARIN blocks (
91.102.96.0/21,193.111.128.0/21,149.7.244.0/22,94.198.112.0/22and neighbours), reflecting a newsroom that must stay reachable from many countries.
Notable
- rDNS is first-party and revealing:
rferl.organdrferl.netcorporate hosts, plus per-service origin servers such asmorigin-kz.azattyq.org(the Kazakh service, Azattyq) andmorigin.voapashto.org— Voice of America's Pashto service is hosted in the same infrastructure, the two USAGM broadcasters sharing a delivery platform. - The space carries servers, not subscribers: no dynamic, DSL or eyeball naming appears anywhere in it.
Interesting
- Because RFE/RL's audiences are in countries where its sites are frequently blocked, the network's design priorities are censorship resistance and origin redundancy, which is why so small an address footprint is split across so many separate prefixes and upstreams.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NIX.CZ - Neutral Internet eXchange for the Czech Republic | Prague, Czech Republic | 91.210.16.118 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 7 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 8.45K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8518- Registry name
- RFERL
- Registrant
- MNT-RFERLCZ
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rferl.org
- Registered
- 2002-07-29
- Last changed
- 2024-11-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Radio Free Europe
- Also known as
- AS8518, AS206718,AS206718
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-RFERL- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- http://www.rferl.org/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 86% valid · 32 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 33 authorising AS8518
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 86% registered · 32 of 37 announcements
- Route objects
- 39 naming AS8518
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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