AS2895 — FREE-NET-AS FREEnet

Network type: education

AS2895 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,864 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

FREEnet (FREE-NET-AS), a Russian research and education network historically based at the N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

What it's used for

• Networking for Russian Academy of Sciences institutes and other research and education organizations.

Notable

• An academic/research network, not a commercial ISP. The name stands for the Network For Research, Education and Engineering.

Interesting

• One of Russia's early academic networks, matching its low RIPE-era AS number.

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

Announced prefixes

• 147.45.0.0/23
• 147.45.14.0/23
• 147.45.20.0/22
• 147.45.32.0/23
• 147.45.194.0/23
• 193.233.0.0/22
• 193.233.4.0/24
• 193.233.10.0/23
• 2001:640::/32

Upstream networks

• AS8732 JSC Comcor
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Downstream networks

• AS2587 OOO FREEnet Group
• AS201842 RCSI

Adjacent networks

• AS8732 JSC Comcor
• AS3267 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE "KURCHATOV INSTITUTE"
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS2587 OOO FREEnet Group
• AS201842 RCSI
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC

Routing security

• RPKI: 9 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 9 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 9 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BLOCK-SET, AS-BLOCKED-RU, AS-FREENET, AS-FREENETMIX, AS-RBNETV6, AS-RELMPEER, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V4, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V6, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC.

Internet exchanges

• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia