Autonomous system
AS9164 R-TEL-AS
Unclassified Spamhaus ASN-DROP RIPE
Summary
R-TEL LLC
legacy
AS9164 (R-TEL-AS) is registered to "R-TEL" LLC, a Ukrainian company that is a RIPE Local Internet Registry. This is a low-numbered legacy ASN whose current holder is best described from the registry and the routing table, because there is very little else to go on.
What it's used for
In routing terms this AS is close to dormant. RIS sees no IPv4 prefixes at all and a single IPv6 /48, 2a14:6300:6::/48, with one observed BGP neighbour. That is the smallest meaningful announcement a network can make: one /48 is a single site's worth of IPv6, and zero IPv4 in 2026 means the AS is not carrying general internet traffic for customers or servers.
The 2a14:6300::/29 block it comes from is a RIPE allocation to the same holder, and sibling /48s from that range appear under other ASNs the company operates. R-TEL is associated with several distinct autonomous system numbers, which is a normal shape for an LIR that provisions ASNs and address space on behalf of customers, but it also means the number in front of you tells you little about what, if anything, is actually running behind it.
Notable
- A legacy ASN from the 9000 block now sitting under a much later-registered Ukrainian LIR: the number has changed hands from whatever originally used it.
- Zero IPv4 announced. Whatever this AS was once used for, it is not doing it now.
- Because the announcement is a single /48 with no reverse-DNS evidence and no public service footprint, no confident statement about the network's purpose is possible.
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, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS43668 | "AS43668" LLC | 34 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| UA | Ukraine | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9164- Registry name
- R-TEL-AS
- Registrant
- "R-TEL" LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@r-tel.ua
- Registered
- 2011-01-13
- Last changed
- 2025-05-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9164
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS9164
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
On Spamhaus ASN-DROP Spamhaus lists this entire
network (associated domain bignet.ua)
as controlled by, or hijacked for, cybercrime. Many operators null-route
everything it originates.
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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