Autonomous system
AS8856 UKRNET Kiev, Ukraine
Hosting RIPE
Summary
UkrNet
hosting content legacy
UKRNET is UkrNet Ltd. of Kyiv, the company behind ukr.net — one of Ukraine's oldest and most-used web properties, best known for its news portal and its free mail.ukr.net webmail service.
What it's used for
- Serving UkrNet's own products rather than selling access. The sampled reverse names are all content and platform infrastructure:
srv1.fwdcdn.comandns1.fwdcdn.net(the CDN and nameservers behind the portal's static assets and mail attachments) andadriver1.ukr.net(ad serving). - Mail, portal, CDN and the associated hosting and cloud services UkrNet sells to Ukrainian businesses.
Notable
- About 6.1k IPv4 addresses across 17 prefixes, drawn from two legacy ranges (
212.42.64.0/19and195.214.192.0/22) and deaggregated into /23s and /24s. Seven observed BGP neighbours. No IPv6. - Content network, not an eyeball network. Despite the "net" in the name and a history stretching back to the early Ukrainian internet, there is no subscriber, DSL or dynamic-pool naming in the space.
- The
fwdcdn.com/fwdcdn.netdomains are UkrNet's own; a reverse lookup landing there is still inside this operator, not a third-party CDN.
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
5 upstream, 0 downstream and 5 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 2026-10-17, 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 · 6.91K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| UA | Ukraine | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8856- Registry name
- UKRNET
- Registrant
- UkrNet Ltd.
- Abuse contact
- noc@ukr.net
- Registered
- 2002-04-11
- Last changed
- 2023-03-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 19 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 36 authorising AS8856
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 19 of 19 announcements
- Route objects
- 51 naming AS8856
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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