AS40966 — L7GUARD-AS L7GUARD Network

Network type: hosting

AS40966 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,816 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

L7GUARD-AS is operated by L7Guard, a Russian web hosting and security provider.

What it's used for

• The address space carries hosting and web services, evidenced by netnames RU-BIGWEB-20140819, VALUEHOST-SPB1-NET, VALUEHOST-MSK1-NET, VALUEHOST-CLD, and VALUEHOST-CLD-RU.
• Reverse DNS entries include BIGWEB-cust.l7guard.xyz, v28.valuehost.ru, and uvds83mail.valuehost.ru, confirming the use of the space for customer hosting and mail services.
• The AS announces 2816 IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes and maintains 19 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a hosting provider exchanging traffic with multiple upstreams and peers rather than a large access network.
• Traffic from this AS consists of web hosting, mail services, and related business endpoints for L7Guard's customers.

Notable

• Registrants for the announced prefixes include ZAO Web Hosting, L7Guard IP Registry, Web Hosting RIPE Admin, and Utransit Net RIPE Admin, all aligned with the L7Guard/ValueHOST brand.
• The address inventory is composed of five distinct IPv4 blocks, including a /22 and four smaller blocks, all located in the Russian Federation.

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

Announced prefixes

• 185.67.164.0/22
• 217.112.36.0/23
• 217.112.42.0/23
• 217.112.44.0/23
• 217.112.46.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS30943 ZAO Web Hosting
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS12389 PJSC Rostelecom
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC

Downstream networks

• AS63258 Web Hosting, Inc.
• AS30943 ZAO Web Hosting

Adjacent networks

• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS30943 ZAO Web Hosting
• AS63258 Web Hosting, Inc.
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS12389 PJSC Rostelecom
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC

Internet exchanges

• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia
• MSK-IX St. Petersburg — St. Petersburg, Russia
• MSK-IX Novosibirsk — Novosibirsk, Russia
• MSK-IX Ekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg, Russia
• MSK-IX Rostov-on-Don — Rostov-on-Don, Russia