AS8298 — IPNG

Network type: hosting

AS8298 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 10 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

IPNG is IPng Networks GmbH, a small Swiss network operator around Zürich. It sells colocation, hosting, IP transit and network consultancy, and runs a deliberately IPv6-forward network with points of presence in the Zürich area and a European ring reaching Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris and Geneva.

What it's used for

• Colocation and hosted infrastructure, plus BGP transit for a handful of downstream networks. The AS announces a few /24s of its own alongside IPv6.
• Reverse DNS is entirely operator infrastructure and follows a tidy site-coded scheme: border0.chbtl0.ipng.ch, chlzn0.ipng.ch, chgtg0.ipng.ch. These are router and PoP names, not customer addresses.
• It peers at SwissIX, CommunityIX and CH-IX, and buys transit from several upstreams.

Notable

• A genuinely small operator behind a very low AS number — and the low number is not inherited pedigree. IPng acquired AS8298 by transfer in 2021 and migrated its network onto it, retiring the AS number it had been using.
• The address space is servers and network equipment, not eyeball or subscriber space, so it should geolocate to Swiss datacentre sites rather than to end users.

Interesting

• The number's earlier life is unusual: it had been lent in 2003 to SixXS, the long-running free IPv6 tunnel-broker project, which was not a legal entity and so held it through a sponsoring LIR (Easynet, later absorbed by Sky). When SixXS shut down the number was free to move on. An IPv6 project's AS number ending up with an IPv6-enthusiast operator is a neat piece of continuity.

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

Announced prefixes

• 92.119.38.0/24
• 194.1.163.0/24
• 194.126.235.0/24
• 2001:678:d78::/48
• 2a0b:dd80::/34
• 2a0b:dd80:3200::/39
• 2a0b:dd80:3400::/38
• 2a0b:dd80:3800::/37
• 2a0b:dd80:4000::/34
• 2a0b:dd80:8000::/33
• 2a0b:dd81::/32
• 2a0b:dd82::/31
• 2a0b:dd84::/30

Upstream networks

• AS25091 IP-Max SA
• AS8283 Netwerkvereniging Coloclue
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS202365 Omer GOLGELI
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS51088 A2B IP B.V.
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS57821 Nonattached Network e.V.
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS20485 Joint Stock Company TransTeleCom
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS199854 Jens Thies
• AS58057 Securebit AG
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB

Downstream networks

• AS4601 Antonios A. Chariton
• AS212323 Daedalean AG
• AS214237 setaiga GmbH
• AS57777 Jeroen Massar
• AS8561 Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH
• AS200232 T. van den Heuvel Holding B.V.
• AS201723 R. van der Meijden
• AS51345 HUGO REGIBO
• AS210036 Rayhaan Ahmad Jaufeerally

Adjacent networks

• AS25091 IP-Max SA
• AS4601 Antonios A. Chariton
• AS212323 Daedalean AG
• AS214237 setaiga GmbH
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS57777 Jeroen Massar
• AS8561 Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH
• AS200232 T. van den Heuvel Holding B.V.
• AS8283 Netwerkvereniging Coloclue
• AS201723 R. van der Meijden
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS202365 Omer GOLGELI
• AS57821 Nonattached Network e.V.
• AS50628 Leonix Telecom SAS
• AS204092 Association GRIFON
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS51345 HUGO REGIBO
• AS17639 Converge ICT Solutions Inc.
• AS51088 A2B IP B.V.
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS210036 Rayhaan Ahmad Jaufeerally
• AS56662 Marcin Gondek
• AS199854 Jens Thies

Routing security

• RPKI: 6 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 5 ROAs.
• ASPA: 4 authorised providers.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 6 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-33932-PROVIDERS, AS-4IXP, AS-4IXP-RS, AS-4IXPV4, AS-CHIX-RS, AS-GALAXYMULTIMEDIA:AS-ROUTE-COLLECTORS, AS-IP-MAX:AS-F5, AS-LEVEL3-IPV6, AS-LSC-IXP-CONNECTED, AS-MANDA-AMSIX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-AMSIX-PEERS-V6, AS-MANDA-DECIX-PEERS-V4, AS-MANDA-DECIX-PEERS-V6, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V4, AS-RETN-ACTUAL-V6, AS-RIS-RRC20, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS203291:AS-MEMBERS, AS203462:AS-NVC-DECIX_FRA_RS, AS209823:AS-PEERS, AS25091:AS-DOWNSTREAMS, AS29097:AS-HOSTPOINT-SWISSIX-IPV6-PEERS, AS29097:AS-HOSTPOINT-SWISSIX-PEERS, AS33495:AS-MEMBERS, AS42476:AS-SWISSIX-CONNECTED.

Internet exchanges

• DE-CIX Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Neutral Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• France-IX Paris — Paris, France
• KleyReX Internet Exchange — Frankfurt, Germany
• The Frys Internet Exchange — Frysian, Netherlands
• Speed Internet Exchange — Dronten, Netherlands
• SwissIX — Zurich, Switzerland
• InterIX Internet Exchange — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• DE-CIX Dusseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany
• Local Internet Exchange Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany
• DE-CIX Munich — Munich, Germany
• Local Internet Exchange Frankfurt — Frankfurt, Germany
• DE-CIX Hamburg — Hamburg, Germany
• France-IX Marseille — Marseille, France
• CH Swiss Internet Exchange — Zurich, Switzerland
• LayerSwitch Internet Exchange — The Hague, Netherlands
• Local Internet Exchange Netherlands — Meppel, Netherlands