AS12589 — POSTA-HU-AS Magyar Posta Zrt

AS12589 announces 1 IPv4 prefixes covering 256 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The Hungarian postal service, holding one /24 that the national telephone company administers on its behalf.

What it's used for

• Corporate connectivity for a national postal operator. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The whole inventory is 194.88.45.0/24, netname MAGYARPOSTA-NET.
• The registry contact on that block is Magyar Telekom RIPE Administrator — the telephone company, not the post office.
• The AS handle is POSTA-HU-AS.
• Three sampled addresses were queried and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A postal service with its own autonomous system number is a reminder of how much of a national post is a logistics and payments network rather than a delivery service. Tracking, counters and giro all need to reach the outside world under an identity that survives a change of supplier.
• The block is the post's, the paperwork is the telco's. State-owned enterprises frequently share administrative staff with the incumbent operator, and the registry records who actually files the forms rather than who uses the addresses. Reading the contact field as ownership would put these 256 addresses in the wrong company entirely.
• One neighbour and 256 addresses is the minimum viable independent network: enough to be routed, connected through exactly one door. The AS number buys portability, not resilience.

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

Announced prefixes

• 194.88.45.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS5483 Magyar Telekom Plc.

Adjacent networks

• AS5483 Magyar Telekom Plc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 1 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 1 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-DATANET, AS-DATANETBIX, AS-GTSHU, AS-MAGYARTELEKOM, AS-MAGYARTELEKOM-HU, AS12301:AS-ROUTES.