Autonomous system
AS8592 IMT
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
IMT-Center / MSUnet
education university legacy
The registry holder of AS8592 is a commercial entity — Research and Production Firm "IMT-Center" OOO — but the network it carries is MSUnet, the Moscow State University network. The announced 212.16.0.0/19 is maintained under MSUNET-MNT and its reverse DNS lands in msu.net.
What it's used for
- University and research connectivity in Moscow. The two sampled addresses at the head of the block resolve to
ns.msu.netandlaima.msu.net— the network's own name servers, not subscriber addressing. - About 8,200 IPv4 addresses, all in the single
212.16.0.0/19block, plus one IPv6 prefix.
Notable
- A case where the holder's name and the network's identity diverge: a research and production firm on paper, a university network in the routing table. Classified on what the space carries, not on the legal entity's name.
- Only four observed BGP neighbours — a leaf network buying transit.
- The AS has been visible in BGP since at least 2000, and the /19 was registered in 1998, consistent with an early Russian academic allocation. The prefix first seen from this origin in the RIS archive (
194.85.200.0/21) is no longer announced here; the current inventory is the /19 alone.
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
1 upstream, 3 downstream and 5 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS12722 | RECONN LLC | 98 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, 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 · 8.19K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8592- Registry name
- IMT
- Registrant
- MSUNET-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@imt.ru
- Registered
- 2002-08-16
- Last changed
- 2025-12-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS8592
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS8592
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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