Autonomous system
AS12312 ECOTEL
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
ecotel communication
isp business legacy
ecotel communication ag is a German telecoms provider selling connectivity and voice services to business customers.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity at scale: 505,856 IPv4 addresses across 28 announced prefixes, with 114 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The address space is old and large. A
/15, four separate/16s and a/17sit at the top of the inventory, sizes that stopped being handed out long ago. - Four IPv6 prefixes, including a
2001:4090::/31and a2a01:5c8::/32. - Every block names the same registry contact,
AS12312 Network Management— the AS number written into the contact handle itself, so the routing and the registry point at each other.
Interesting
- The netnames record an allocation history running from
DE-ECOTEL-960605in June 1996 throughDE-ECOTEL-970106,DE-ECOTEL-970502,DE-ECOTEL-970805andDE-ECOTEL-971021in a single busy year, thenDE-ECOTEL-981217,DE-ECOTEL-19991229,DE-ECOTEL-20001103and on toDE-ECOTEL-20071010. - That list also catches RIPE changing its own conventions mid-stream. The stamps use a two-digit year up to
981217and a four-digit one from19991229onward, for the obvious reason. The switch was gradual rather than dated — other netnames in the registry use both forms through 1999 — but the stamps on either side of it are still in the routing table three decades later.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.29 |
| Megaport Dusseldorf IX | Düsseldorf, Germany | 194.146.118.57 |
Transit providers
17 upstream, 10 downstream and 39 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 28 prefixes · 506K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 32 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12312- Registry name
- ECOTEL
- Registrant
- AS12312-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ecotel.net
- Registered
- 2002-09-18
- Last changed
- 2025-10-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 70% valid · 28 valid, 12 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 30 authorising AS12312
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 39 of 40 announcements
- Route objects
- 43 naming AS12312
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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