Autonomous system
AS12693 EDISCOM Am Kanal 4a, 14467 Potsdam
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
e.discom Telekommunikation
isp transit business
Holds the oldest netname in this entire stretch of the number range: September 1991.
What it's used for
- Regional access and transit in Brandenburg. 49,152 addresses in 31 IPv4 prefixes, two IPv6 prefixes, and 140 observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
153.92.72.0/21is netnameDE-MEVACOM-19910923, and149.249.48.0/21isDE-MEVACOM-19930901.- Later allocations under the same name run
990811,20031013,20050207on two blocks, and20160902. - Two blocks belong to other companies: AEP Pluckhahn Netze GmbH and neu-medianet GmbH.
- The IPv6 announcements are
2a01:a380::/32and2a06:cbc0::/29. - The AS handle carries a street address:
Am Kanal 4a, 14467 Potsdam. - Seven sampled addresses answered, as reversed octets under
ediscom.de, two of them with a-staticsuffix.
Interesting
- September 1991 is the earliest date recorded in any netname across this range, and it sits on space from
153.xand149.x, the old class B territory. Those blocks were assigned when the applicant wrote to a registry that trusted them to need it, and they have survived every subsequent tightening of policy simply by never being handed back. MEVACOMis a name the company no longer uses, yet it is carried on every allocation from the first to the last, twenty-five years apart. Filing a quarter-century of paperwork under a brand that predates the current one is the registry working as intended: the identifier stays stable precisely because it means nothing.- Somebody typed the office address into the AS name field, which is meant for a short handle and is displayed by every tool that resolves AS numbers to names. The result is a postal address appearing in traceroute output worldwide.
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 7 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.194.222 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.213.127 |
| Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange | Berlin, Germany | 193.178.185.20 |
| Megaport Frankfurt IX | Frankfurt, Germany | 62.69.146.47 |
| Megaport Dusseldorf IX | Düsseldorf, Germany | 194.146.118.79 |
| Megaport Hamburg IX | Hamburg, Germany | 193.42.155.31 |
| Megaport Berlin IX | Berlin, Germany | 194.9.117.50 |
Transit providers
26 upstream, 11 downstream and 58 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 31 prefixes · 49.15K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 33 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12693- Registry name
- ediscom
- Registrant
- AS12693-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ediscom.net
- Registered
- 2002-08-29
- Last changed
- 2025-12-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- e.discom Telekommunikation GmbH
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-EDISCOM- Present at
- 8 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- http://www.ediscom.de
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
- 91% valid · 20 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 25 authorising AS12693
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 95% registered · 21 of 22 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS12693
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: 440 networks and 1,773 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