Autonomous system
AS12536 BSO Network Solutions SAS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
BSO Network Solutions
transit business backbone
A French network announcing one /19 under an AS name belonging to a company it bought.
What it's used for
- Network and connectivity services. 8,192 addresses in a single
/19, three observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The registry holder is BSO Network Solutions SAS, but the AS handle reads
IX Reach International— a different company entirely. - The one block,
212.121.32.0/19, is netnameFR-BSO-19990705, with a BSO Communication NOC as contact. - That netname spells its 1999 date in full, as
19990705.
Interesting
19990705is worth pausing on. The usual assumption is that four-digit years mark the later convention and two-digit ones the earlier, so a99netname is read as older than a1999one. This record disproves the rule from inside the same year: the format was a choice made per application, not a period the registry passed through.- The AS name and the holder disagreeing is an acquisition that never reached the routing records. IX Reach interconnects networks between exchanges; BSO bought that business, and the AS carries the name customers knew while the registry carries the owner's.
- One
/19and three neighbours is a network whose product is reaching other networks rather than holding addresses. The inventory is small because the addresses are not the point.
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 2026-11-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12536- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- BSOCOM-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bsonetwork.com
- Registered
- 2002-09-02
- Last changed
- 2022-07-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS12536
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 50% registered · 1 of 2 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS12536
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 453 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-12. 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