AS12938 — IBCH

AS12938 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 512 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A chemistry institute on 512 addresses, whose one visible machine is a mail server.

What it's used for

• The network of a bioorganic chemistry institute within a national academy of sciences. 512 addresses in one IPv4 prefix, a single observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 194.85.8.0/23, netname IBCH.
• The netname is a bare acronym with no country prefix and no date.
• The registrant name runs to nine words before the institute's own name appears.
• First observed in the routing archive in April 2016.
• One of three sampled addresses returned a name: mail1.ibch.ru.

Interesting

• A bare netname with no country code and no date is an early-convention record. The prefixed and dated forms became common later, so an unadorned acronym marks a registration made before anyone standardised the field, or by someone who ignored the standard.
• The one machine answering is mail1, which is the most honest possible summary of what a small research institute puts on the public internet. Mail has to be reachable from outside because that is how collaboration works. Almost nothing else does.
• The 194.85 range holds a great deal of Russian academic space allocated in the 1990s, and institutes were given /23s and /24s out of it individually. Address space distributed by institution rather than by demand leaves each one with a small independent block and its own AS, which is why academies of sciences appear in routing data as dozens of tiny networks.
• The full registrant name is longer than most companies' entire records.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.85.8.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"

Adjacent networks

• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 2 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CMTL, AS-EMIX, AS-IIPNET, AS-IIPNET-MSK-IX, AS209141:AS-RUCUST, AS3267:AS-CUST:AS-GOV:AS-FULL, AS3267:AS-RUNNETCORE.