AS12724 — LASERNET-AS LaserNet - research network of the Institutes of

AS12724 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,096 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Its reverse DNS answers with a name that has no domain attached to it at all.

What it's used for

• The research network of an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 4,096 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, two observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 82.179.96.0/20, netname LASERNET.
• The registrant is the Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• One sampled address of three answered, as GPI-LASERNET-5.
• The AS name field is cut off mid-phrase: LaserNet - research network of the Institutes of.

Interesting

• GPI-LASERNET-5 is a single label with no dots. Every other name in this collection is a fully qualified domain, ending in a real suffix, because that is what the specifications call for and what resolvers expect. A bare label in a reverse record is not resolvable back to anything, which makes it a comment rather than a name: it identifies the machine to whoever reads it and to nothing else.
• The truncated AS name is the same phenomenon in the registry. Somebody wrote a full sentence describing the network into a field with a fixed length, and every routing tool in the world now displays the first half of it.
• A /20 for one physics institute, held under one netname with no date, is late-nineties academic allocation practice. Research institutes were early and were given room, and the block has stayed exactly as it was ever since.

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

Announced prefixes

• 82.179.96.0/20

Upstream networks

• AS5429 Telecommunications center UMOS, LLC
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"

Adjacent networks

• AS5429 Telecommunications center UMOS, LLC
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"