Autonomous system
AS8706 VDA-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Volga-Dnepr Airlines
enterprise aviation legacy
VDA-AS belongs to LLC Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the Russian heavy-cargo carrier based in Ulyanovsk — best known for operating the Antonov An-124 fleet that moves outsize and oversized freight worldwide.
What it's used for
- The airline's own corporate network. It announces exactly one prefix,
193.104.102.0/24(RIPE netnameVDA-NET, registered to Volga-Dnepr under its own maintainer), giving 256 IPv4 addresses and no IPv6. - No rDNS is delegated on the block and there are no downstream networks, so this is internal enterprise addressing — offices, operations systems, remote access — rather than anything published to the internet.
Notable
- Two BGP neighbours and a single /24: a textbook provider-independent enterprise AS, held so the company can multihome its own space rather than depend on one carrier's addressing.
- The low AS number carries no early-internet history. Both the AS object and the
/24were registered in November 2009 — a reclaimed two-byte number reissued to a modern holder.
Interesting
- Address space held by an airline is a reminder that AS numbers follow operational need, not industry: a company that needs resilient connectivity between hangars, hubs and flight-ops systems ends up on the routing table alongside ISPs.
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 2026-10-15, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8706- Registry name
- VDA-AS
- Registrant
- MTU-NOC
- Abuse contact
- sergey.ermolaev@volga-dnepr.com
- Registered
- 2009-11-02
- Last changed
- 2023-12-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8706
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS8706
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 1,781 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