Autonomous system
AS12844 BOUYGTEL-B2B
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Bouygues Telecom (B2B)
telecom business enterprise
A carrier's business arm whose netnames read as a customer list: an engineering school, a county council, and a block leased from a British broadcaster.
What it's used for
- The business-services network of a French mobile and fixed carrier. 77,056 addresses across 23 IPv4 prefixes, fourteen observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The largest block is
159.31.0.0/16, netnameFR-MINES-ALES, registered to a French engineering school. 185.183.0.0/22isFR-CD42-20161220, registered to a French département.78.105.164.0/22isSKY-LEASED-IPXO, registered to a British broadcaster with a leasing hostmaster contact.- Several blocks use an internal template:
MODMI-158-173-248-0,MODMI-158-173-28-0,MODMI-158-173-148-0. - Eighteen addresses were sampled and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A whole legacy /16 held by a school and announced by a carrier is the ordinary outcome of an early allocation meeting a modern outsourcing contract. The school still owns 65,536 addresses it obtained when they were free for the asking.
SKY-LEASED-IPXOnames an address-leasing marketplace. IPv4 exhaustion turned addresses into an asset class, so an organisation with spare space rents it out and it turns up announced by an unrelated carrier in another country. The netname is the only trace of the transaction.MODMI-158-173-248-0builds the netname from the block's own address with dots replaced by hyphens. Generating identifiers mechanically guarantees uniqueness and readability at the cost of saying anything about what the block is for, and a carrier with hundreds of customer assignments will take that trade every time.
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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 23 prefixes · 77.06K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS12844- Registry name
- BOUYGTEL-B2B
- Registrant
- BYTEL-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bouyguestelecom.fr
- Registered
- 2002-06-07
- Last changed
- 2020-02-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 78% valid · 18 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 19 authorising AS12844
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 91% registered · 21 of 23 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 23 naming AS12844
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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