Autonomous system
AS9818 IFLAB - Internet Finance Laboratory
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Internet Finance Laboratory (IFLAB)
legacy enterprise research
AS9818 (IFLAB) is registered to Internet Finance Laboratory, an organisation in China (routing and registry data place it in Beijing). Beyond the registry record there is very little public information about the operator, and this card sticks to what the routing evidence actually shows.
What it's used for
RIS sees a single IPv4 prefix — 103.174.94.0/23, 512 addresses — and a single IPv6 /32 (2400:1160::/32), announced through 3 BGP neighbours: China Unicom's Beijing province network, the China Networks Inter-Exchange, and China Mobile. Three upstreams for 512 addresses is a deliberately resilient posture for a very small network: whoever runs it wanted reachability across the major Chinese carriers rather than capacity. Third-party address databases report no domains hosted in the space. Everything about the shape says a self-operated network for one organisation's own systems — an enterprise or institutional network, not a provider selling connectivity, and far too small to be hosting anything at scale.
Notable
- The AS number is legacy and low, but the IPv4 space is not:
103.0.0.0/8is APNIC's post-exhaustion range, so this allocation is comparatively recent. An old ASN paired with new address space usually means the AS was re-purposed or activated long after it was issued. Do not read age into the routing from the AS number alone. - The IPv6
/32is enormous relative to the 512 IPv4 addresses — a full ISP-sized v6 allocation attached to a network with a single /23.
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 2026-11-02, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CN | China | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS9818- Registry name
- IFLAB
- Abuse contact
- lic95@qq.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-10-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9818
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS9818
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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