Autonomous system
AS12589 POSTA-HU-AS Magyar Posta Zrt
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Magyar Posta
enterprise government
The Hungarian postal service, holding one /24 that the national telephone company administers on its behalf.
What it's used for
- Corporate connectivity for a national postal operator. 256 addresses in a single IPv4 prefix, one observed BGP neighbour, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The whole inventory is
194.88.45.0/24, netnameMAGYARPOSTA-NET. - The registry contact on that block is
Magyar Telekom RIPE Administrator— the telephone company, not the post office. - The AS handle is
POSTA-HU-AS. - Three sampled addresses were queried and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A postal service with its own autonomous system number is a reminder of how much of a national post is a logistics and payments network rather than a delivery service. Tracking, counters and giro all need to reach the outside world under an identity that survives a change of supplier.
- The block is the post's, the paperwork is the telco's. State-owned enterprises frequently share administrative staff with the incumbent operator, and the registry records who actually files the forms rather than who uses the addresses. Reading the contact field as ownership would put these 256 addresses in the wrong company entirely.
- One neighbour and 256 addresses is the minimum viable independent network: enough to be routed, connected through exactly one door. The AS number buys portability, not resilience.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS5483 | Magyar Telekom Plc. | 59 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-12, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HU | Hungary | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12589- Registry name
- POSTA-HU-AS
- Registrant
- MTELEKOM-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@telekom.hu
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2021-10-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS12589
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS12589
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: 453 networks and 1,848 prefixes, as published 2026-11-13. 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