AS12616 — HOSTING-MSK

Network type: hosting

AS12616 announces 15 IPv4 prefixes covering 8,704 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Six company names, a Soviet-era domain still answering, and a spelling mistake preserved in the registry.

What it's used for

• Hosting in Moscow. 8,704 addresses in 15 IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and one observed BGP neighbour.

Notable

• The registry contact on most blocks is Filanco Administrtive Group, with the letter missing.
• Netnames run RU-CITYTELECOM1-20040604, RU-CITYTELECOM1-20070806, RU-CITYTELECOM1-20131022, FILANCO-NET-77-208-215, FILANCO-NET-31-24, FILANCO-NET-31-27, FILANCO-NET-62-59 and Hostline-NET.
• Sampled addresses answer unused.hostline.su, broadcast.hostline.ru, c07db.hoster.ru, sni0.hoster.ru and P7.LUSTYXGAME.COM.
• The IPv6 announcement is 2a00:13c0:201::/48.

Interesting

• The same brand appears under .su and .ru. The Soviet Union's country domain outlived the country by decades and still resolves, so a network that registered a name in the early nineties has had no reason to stop using it. Reverse DNS is exactly the sort of quiet infrastructure where that kind of survival goes unnoticed.
• The names are unusually candid: unused marks spare addresses and broadcast marks the last address of a subnet. Both are notes to whoever is reading the zone, published to the world by accident of how reverse DNS works.
• FILANCO-NET-77-208-215 puts an address range inside the name of the block that holds it. It saves a lookup and breaks the moment the range changes.
• A typo in a contact name is permanent in a way a typo in a web page is not, because correcting it means an authorised change request rather than an edit.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 31.28.24.0/24
• 31.28.27.0/24
• 62.152.59.0/24
• 77.87.208.0/23
• 77.87.210.0/24
• 77.87.212.0/23
• 78.110.48.0/20
• 83.69.226.0/24
• 83.69.230.0/24
• 83.69.233.0/24
• 83.69.236.0/23
• 89.188.121.0/24
• 185.38.84.0/23
• 185.38.86.0/24
• 195.128.50.0/24
• 2a00:13c0:201::/48

Upstream networks

• AS3175 Citytelecom LLC

Adjacent networks

• AS3175 Citytelecom LLC