Autonomous system
AS8641 NAUKANET-AS BACKBONE AS of Nauka-Svyaz
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Nauka-Svyaz
isp business transit legacy
LLC "Nauka-Svyaz" (NAUKANET-AS, registered as the backbone AS of Nauka-Svyaz) — a Moscow-based telecom carrier founded in 1999, selling telephony, VoIP, IP transit and data services to corporate customers and to other operators.
What it's used for
- Corporate connectivity, not consumer broadband. The rDNS is dominated by its own backbone (
gw-lux-core-ru-msk-vol.naukanet.ru,gate001.naukanet.ru, edge routers in Moscow and St Petersburg) and by named business-customer hosts on their own domains: mail servers for a ceramics maker, a market-research firm, an engineering company, a Formula-style events operator (gptel.ru/grand-prix.ru). - Downstream access networks ride it too, under zones like
access.telecore.net.ru— Nauka-Svyaz acting as a carrier for smaller operators.
Notable
- Roughly 41,000 addresses across about 60 prefixes, but almost none of it is eyeball space. The one exception is a small PPTP pool (
NNN-160-47-84-pptp.mnevniki.ru, named for a Moscow district), the residue of an absorbed local network rather than a mass-market product. - Classified
businessbecause of what the space carries: named enterprise hosts and carrier infrastructure, with no DSL, DHCP or CGN subscriber naming anywhere in the sampled inventory.
Interesting
- The company's name translates as "Science-Communication", a legacy of its origins serving Russian scientific institutions; the network today is an ordinary commercial B2B carrier.
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 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.195.135 |
| MSK-IX Moscow | Moscow, Russia | 195.208.208.131 |
Transit providers
27 upstream, 118 downstream and 184 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 52 prefixes · 41.22K addresses IPv6 19 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 71 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8641- Registry name
- NAUKANET-AS
- Registrant
- NAUKANET-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@naukanet.ru
- Registered
- 2002-01-18
- Last changed
- 2026-08-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 61 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 72 authorising AS8641
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 61 of 61 announcements
- Route objects
- 85 naming AS8641
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: 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