AS8706 — VDA-AS

AS8706 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

VDA-AS belongs to LLC Volga-Dnepr Airlines, the Russian heavy-cargo carrier based in Ulyanovsk — best known for operating the Antonov An-124 fleet that moves outsize and oversized freight worldwide.

What it's used for

• The airline's own corporate network. It announces exactly one prefix, 193.104.102.0/24 (RIPE netname VDA-NET, registered to Volga-Dnepr under its own maintainer), giving 256 IPv4 addresses and no IPv6.
• No rDNS is delegated on the block and there are no downstream networks, so this is internal enterprise addressing — offices, operations systems, remote access — rather than anything published to the internet.

Notable

• Two BGP neighbours and a single /24: a textbook provider-independent enterprise AS, held so the company can multihome its own space rather than depend on one carrier's addressing.
• The low AS number carries no early-internet history. Both the AS object and the /24 were registered in November 2009 — a reclaimed two-byte number reissued to a modern holder.

Interesting

• Address space held by an airline is a reminder that AS numbers follow operational need, not industry: a company that needs resilient connectivity between hangars, hubs and flight-ops systems ends up on the routing table alongside ISPs.

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

Announced prefixes

• 193.104.102.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS59692 IQWeb FZ-LLC
• AS8359 MTS PJSC
• AS57724 DDOS-GUARD LTD

Adjacent networks

• AS59692 IQWeb FZ-LLC
• AS8359 MTS PJSC
• AS57724 DDOS-GUARD LTD

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 1 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CMST-SIMBIRSK, AS-DDOS-GUARD-WHISKEY-CLIENTS, AS-HURRICANE, AS-MTU, AS-MTU2, AS-ROSTELECOM, AS-SOVAM, AS-VOLGATELECOM-CUSTOMERS, AS197068:AS-CUST, AS3216:AS-ALL, AS3491:AS-CUSTOMERS-EU.