AS8636 — MAXNET Russia

Network type: residential

AS8636 announces 8 IPv4 prefixes covering 22,016 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

MAXnet Systems Ltd. (MAXNET) — a regional Russian internet provider headquartered in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, serving the Obninsk and Kaluga areas.

What it's used for

• Consumer and small-business broadband in its two home cities. The rDNS splits cleanly by town and by role: carrier-grade-NAT subscriber pools named NNN.NAT-pool.Kaluga.MAXnet.ru and NAT-pool.Obninsk.MAXnet.ru, plus static hosts under the regional zones Kaluga.net and Obninsk.ru.
• Those static names are a mix of individual subscribers (surname-style hosts) and local businesses — car dealers, service firms, a Wi-Fi hotspot operator — which is exactly what a small-city ISP's address space looks like.

Notable

• The large NAT-pool blocks are the decisive signal. An operator only builds CGN pools when it has more household subscribers than IPv4 addresses; a business-only or transit network has no reason to.
• Roughly 22,000 addresses across about 20 prefixes, all RIPE, all self- registered to MAXnet — a coherent regional inventory, not an assembled one.

Interesting

• The two brand zones outlive their origins: Kaluga.net and Obninsk.ru read like the names of separate local ISPs, and the network still labels its address space by them long after they were folded into MAXnet.

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

Announced prefixes

• 5.23.96.0/21
• 77.244.64.0/20
• 176.12.96.0/21
• 185.135.148.0/22
• 194.85.239.0/24
• 194.190.39.0/24
• 195.112.96.0/19
• 217.15.192.0/20
• 2a01:8600::/29

Upstream networks

• AS50509 Transroute Telecom LTD
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS35598 INETCOM CARRIER LLC
• AS62255 BiMajLink d.o.o.
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS208972 GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS56655 Gigahost AS

Downstream networks

• AS202344 LLC Basalt Svobodnoe Programnoe Obespechenie
• AS62264 World Data Center"
• AS210493 ITS PRO Ltd.
• AS60818 Scientific-production Association Telemetry LLC
• AS31344 Physical and Energy Institute named after A.I. Leipunsky"
• AS58135 AO Kaluga Astral
• AS50703 Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Center "Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences"

Adjacent networks

• AS50509 Transroute Telecom LTD
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS35598 INETCOM CARRIER LLC
• AS62255 BiMajLink d.o.o.
• AS202344 LLC Basalt Svobodnoe Programnoe Obespechenie
• AS31344 Physical and Energy Institute named after A.I. Leipunsky"
• AS62264 World Data Center"
• AS210493 ITS PRO Ltd.
• AS60818 Scientific-production Association Telemetry LLC
• AS58135 AO Kaluga Astral
• AS43298 Storm Networks LLC
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS208972 GIBIRNET ILETISIM HIZMETLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS49673 Truenetwork LLC
• AS50703 Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Center "Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences"
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS56655 Gigahost AS

Internet exchanges

• MSK-IX Moscow — Moscow, Russia