AS12291 — DPAG-AS Deutsche Post AG

AS12291 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 393,728 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The corporate network of Deutsche Post AG, the German postal operator that owns DHL.

What it's used for

• Internal enterprise networking for a postal and logistics group: sorting centres, depots, branch counters and the corporate systems behind them.

Notable

• 394,000 addresses announced from just five prefixes, including two /15s and two /16s. That is an enormous holding for a private network, and it is announced with almost no deaggregation.
• Only two observed BGP neighbours. A network this large with this few adjacencies is purely an end site — it consumes connectivity and carries nothing for anyone else.
• The registry lists T-Systems DPDHL NWS alongside Deutsche Post as the holder, so the network is run by T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's enterprise IT arm, on the postal group's behalf.
• No IPv6 announced.

Interesting

• Postal operators turn out to be some of the largest private address holders anywhere. Deutsche Post here and UPS in the US both hold legacy space far out of proportion to their size as internet businesses, because parcel logistics was computerised early, at continental scale, and needed an address for every scanner and sorting machine at a time when nobody was counting.

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

Announced prefixes

• 149.239.0.0/16
• 160.54.0.0/15
• 160.56.0.0/15
• 160.58.0.0/16
• 192.109.50.0/23

Upstream networks

• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS12306 Plus.line AG

Adjacent networks

• AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
• AS12306 Plus.line AG