AS12679 — ASN-MOL Moscow, Russia

AS12679 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

An autonomous system held by a named individual, on one /23 registered in September 1999.

What it's used for

• Internet access in Moscow. 512 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The entire inventory is 212.8.224.0/23, netname RU-DNS-19990922.
• The registrant is recorded as a person rather than a company.
• One sampled address of three answered, as 126.225.cli.mol.ru.

Interesting

• Almost every holder in the registry is an organisation. A record naming a private individual as the registrant of routed address space is rare enough to be worth reading twice, and it usually means a network that predates the paperwork: the person who applied in the nineties is still the person on the form.
• The letters in RU-DNS-19990922 match the holder's initials in the Russian order, family name first. That the same three letters also name the Internet's directory service is a coincidence, and a good demonstration that netnames should never be parsed for meaning by anything but a human.
• cli marks the address as a client rather than infrastructure, and the first two labels are the last two octets in reverse order. Two names' worth of scheme for a network of 512 addresses is the work of someone who set it up once, correctly, and left it alone.

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

Announced prefixes

• 212.8.224.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS25227 JSC Avantel

Adjacent networks

• AS25227 JSC Avantel