AS15880 — CHIKALIN-AS

AS15880 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 3,072 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A number in a range issued at the start of the century that the routing archive did not see for another ten years.

What it's used for

• A sole trader's network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from the Russian Federation, no IPv6, three thousand and seventy-two addresses, across three observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The registrant is a private entrepreneur rather than a company, and the AS handle is built from a surname with the two letters for an autonomous system.
• Both netnames are built from that same surname, one with the three letters for a network attached and one without, so the two blocks were registered under different habits.
• The routing archive first saw this number a decade after the numbers around it, which means it sat unused or unrouted for years before anyone announced anything under it.
• Three thousand addresses across two blocks, with three upstreams, which is more redundancy than the size suggests.
• Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• One person is the legal holder of a routable network here. That is unusual only in paperwork: the registries were built for organisations, and a sole trader has to be recorded as one anyway.
• Three upstreams for three thousand addresses is a lot of transit for the size, and it is what a small provider buys when the customers are local businesses who notice an outage.

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

Announced prefixes

• 46.175.32.0/21
• 91.233.92.0/22

Upstream networks

• AS12389 PJSC Rostelecom
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS13094 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"

Adjacent networks

• AS12389 PJSC Rostelecom
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS13094 JSC "ER-Telecom Holding"