Autonomous system
AS12291 DPAG-AS Deutsche Post AG
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Deutsche Post DHL
enterprise logistics legacy
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 NWSalongside 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. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 394K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12291- Registry name
- DPAG-AS
- Registrant
- DEUTSCHE-POST-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@epost-dev.de
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12291
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 16 naming AS12291
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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