Autonomous system
AS8904 BANK_OF_RUSSIA CBRF Autonomous System
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Bank of Russia (Central Bank of the Russian Federation)
government legacy
BANK_OF_RUSSIA is the autonomous system of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia), the country's monetary authority and banking regulator.
What it's used for
- The central bank's own infrastructure and public presence. It is a state financial institution, so the space is classified
government: there are no subscriber pools, no hosting estate and nothing sold to third parties.
Notable
- Small and tightly contained: about 5.9k IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes, all inside the legacy
212.40.192.0/19allocation, with only two observed BGP neighbours. That is a single institution buying transit, not a network with downstreams. - No PTRs came back on the addresses sampled inside its prefixes. That is unremarkable for a closed institutional network and is not evidence about the zone's delegation one way or the other.
Interesting
- A central bank running its own AS since the late 1990s is less common than it sounds — most national banks of that era sat behind a state telco. The contiguous, unchanging
212.40.192.0/19footprint suggests the network was designed once and left 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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 5.89K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8904- Registry name
- BANK_OF_RUSSIA
- Registrant
- Bank of Russia
- Abuse contact
- abuse@cbr.ru
- Registered
- 2001-11-12
- Last changed
- 2026-05-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8904
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS8904
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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