Autonomous system
AS11967 HOP179
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Hop179 OÜ
hosting transit legacy
HOP179 is Hop179, a small operator-friendly connectivity provider that runs as Hop179 OÜ in Estonia and Hop179 LLC in Arizona. Its stated purpose is helping IPv6 enthusiasts and hobby networks get on the internet, and its routing matches that description closely.
What it's used for
- Community IPv6 connectivity, tunnels and small-scale VM hosting. The AS announces only 1,024 IPv4 addresses but 18 IPv6 prefixes — an inverted ratio that almost no commercial network shows, and the clearest possible evidence that IPv6 is the product rather than an afterthought.
- Reverse DNS backs this up:
atun.hop179.neton its own space is tunnel infrastructure, and other addresses carry unrelated third-party hostnames, consistent with sub-allocating small blocks and VMs to the hobbyists it serves.
Notable
- 142 observed neighbours against 1,024 IPv4 addresses. Neighbour count is the role signal, and this ratio is emphatically not an eyeball or enterprise network: it is an operator whose value is in peering breadth, present at many exchange points, carrying other people's small networks rather than its own traffic.
- One announced prefix,
44.32.91.0/24, is registered to Amateur Radio Digital Communications — a slice of the ham-radio44/8space. That is not a third-party-registrant red flag; it is exactly what an operator serving hobby networks would carry, and it corroborates the rest of the picture.
Interesting
- The IPv4 prefixes span ARIN (
130.12,23.133) and the IPv6 spans both ARIN and RIPE ranges, consistent with the two legal entities on two continents.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 10 exchanges in 5 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.213.113 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.119.75 |
| The Frys Internet Exchange | Frysian, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:10f::2ebf:190 |
| InterIX Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:134::7f |
| Local Internet Exchange Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf, Germany | 185.1.155.176 |
| Ontario Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 149.112.50.85 |
| Local Internet Exchange Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 185.1.166.80 |
| Nine IX | Paris, France | 185.1.14.159 |
Transit providers
25 upstream, 64 downstream and 124 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 21 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EE | Estonia | 24 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS11967- Registry name
- HOP179
- Registrant
- AS26954-MNT
- Abuse contact
- report.abuse@hop179.net
- Registered
- 2026-04-07
- Last changed
- 2026-04-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Hop179
- Also known as
- Hop179 Main
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS11967:AS-HOP179- Present at
- 20 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://hop179.net
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 24 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 30 authorising AS11967
- ASPA
- 7 declared providers
- IRR
- 96% registered · 24 of 25 announcements
- Route objects
- 42 naming AS11967
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere