AS8431 — AS8431 Sofia, Bulgaria

AS8431 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 4,864 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS8431 belongs to TEA Ltd of Sofia, one of Bulgaria's long-standing internet companies. It sells business internet access in Sofia and Plovdiv alongside web hosting, VPS, colocation and IT support. Many datasets show its name as "Sofia, Bulgaria" — that is the registry's location field, not a company name.

What it's used for

• Corporate connectivity and hosted services. The reverse DNS across 195.230.0.0/19 is a roll-call of customer names: individual hosts and gateways under tea.bg are named after the businesses behind them, with the provider's own routers and address pools mixed in.
• Just under 5,000 IPv4 addresses in nine prefixes, all from a single legacy allocation, with no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Business and hosting space, not eyeball space. There are no dynamic subscriber pools here. An address in this range is most likely a customer's server or a leased-line site.
• The AS peers with a large number of Bulgarian networks relative to its size, which is what a small local provider looks like when it sits on the national exchange: many peers, few upstreams, little address space.

Interesting

• The allocation's netname encodes its own date, 960917 — September 1996 — which is a fair marker of when this network first came online, back when a Bulgarian ISP named each customer's gateway by hand.

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

Announced prefixes

• 195.230.0.0/20
• 195.230.16.0/23
• 195.230.18.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS20911 Net-Surf.net Ltd.
• AS34224 Neterra Ltd.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS8262 Evolink EAD
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS8218 Zayo Infrastructure France SA
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS34927 iFog GmbH
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS8280 SYNAPSECOM S.A. Provider of Telecommunications and Internet Services
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS24482 SG.GS

Adjacent networks

• AS20911 Net-Surf.net Ltd.
• AS34224 Neterra Ltd.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS8262 Evolink EAD
• AS34549 meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG
• AS8218 Zayo Infrastructure France SA
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS206499 LOCIX LIMITED
• AS8280 SYNAPSECOM S.A. Provider of Telecommunications and Internet Services
• AS401753 BIXCE Inc
• AS20764 CJSC RASCOM
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS50673 Serverius Holding B.V.
• AS34927 iFog GmbH

Internet exchanges

• NetIX — Sofia, Bulgaria
• Bulgarian Internet eXchange — Sofia, Bulgaria