AS8330 — LONAP LONAP Network AS8330 Policy

AS8330 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 2,304 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

LONAP is LONAP Ltd, the London Network Access Point — a member-owned internet exchange point in London. This AS number is the exchange's own network AS, used for the IXP's route servers, management systems and peering-LAN infrastructure.

What it's used for

• Running the exchange itself: route servers that let members exchange routes with each other, plus the AS8330 management network. Router interfaces carry lonap.net reverse DNS such as vlanNNN-gw.lonap.net.
• Addressing for the peering LANs and member-facing IP space. Much of the announced /22-scale range carries placeholder rDNS (ipNN-NNN.no-dns-yet.lonap.net), which is what an exchange's unassigned or newly-assigned member addressing looks like.
• LONAP has many BGP neighbours because its members peer across it, not because it sells transit. It is deliberately not a transit provider.

Notable

• An IXP has no honest kind in this vocabulary, so it is left unclassified. It is not hosting, not an ISP, not an eyeball network and not transit. It is shared switching fabric between other networks, and forcing it into a bucket would poison any classifier that consumed it.
• Traffic observed on LONAP's peering LAN belongs to its members. An address on the exchange fabric identifies a member's router port, not LONAP the company.

Interesting

• LONAP is one of the UK's long-running member-owned exchanges, and its low AS number reflects a founding in the era when London's peering landscape was being built out. Its neighbour count is a function of its members, not of any customer cone.

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

Announced prefixes

• 5.57.88.0/21
• 193.203.5.0/24
• 2a00:eb20::/32

Upstream networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS44684 Mythic Beasts Ltd
• AS3170 VeloxServ Communications Ltd
• AS5413 Wavenet Limited
• AS3213 Bogons Ltd
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited

Adjacent networks

• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS44684 Mythic Beasts Ltd
• AS3170 VeloxServ Communications Ltd
• AS5413 Wavenet Limited
• AS3213 Bogons Ltd
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited

Internet exchanges

• London Network Access Point — London, United Kingdom