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Autonomous system

AS12859 NL-BIT BIT BV

Hosting RIPE

IPv4 addresses 58.11K 44 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 19 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly NL
Exchanges 7 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 32 267 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

BIT BV

Netherlands · AI-generated

hosting isp infrastructure

1,350 BGP neighbours, and routers named after dead physicists.

What it's used for

  • A Dutch hosting and connectivity provider. 58,112 addresses across 44 IPv4 prefixes, eighteen IPv6 prefixes, and 1,350 observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

  • The largest blocks are 87.251.32.0/19, 213.136.0.0/19, 213.154.224.0/19, 212.72.240.0/20 and 212.114.96.0/20.
  • Netnames run NL-BIT-991209, NL-BIT-20000522, 20030129, 20050909 and 20100528; 178.22.56.0/21 is NL-EXONET-20100401, registered to a different company.
  • Two of eighteen sampled addresses returned names: homit-gw.jun1.galilei.network.bit.nl and 213-136-23-254.colo.bit.nl.

Interesting

  • 1,350 neighbours is the second-highest count seen anywhere in this range, against a very ordinary 58,112 addresses. A provider that peers with everyone reachable is buying short paths for its hosting customers, and the neighbour count reflects an exchange-heavy strategy rather than size.
  • jun1.galilei names a specific router: a vendor abbreviation, an index, and a hostname from a naming scheme built on scientists. Naming machines after a theme is how operators keep hundreds of devices memorable, and it survives into public DNS because the reverse zone is generated from the same inventory the engineers use.
  • NL-BIT-991209 is a two-digit year from December 1999, filed days after four-digit netnames elsewhere in this range, and this holder's very next block in May 2000 uses four digits. Even within one organisation the format was not settled, which is what you would expect if it was never a rule in the first place.
  • One block belongs to another company entirely. Hosting providers absorb smaller ones, and the acquired network's registry record is the last thing anyone gets round to changing.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

Recorded at 7 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
DE-CIX FrankfurtFrankfurt, Germany80.81.192.95
LINX LON1London, United Kingdom195.66.225.51
AMS-IX AmsterdamAmsterdam, Netherlands80.249.208.35
Neutral Internet ExchangeAmsterdam, Netherlands193.239.116.19
The Frys Internet ExchangeFrysian, Netherlands2001:7f8:10f::323b:186
ERA-IX AmsterdamAmsterdam, Netherlands185.1.240.201
Neutral Internet Exchange 2Amsterdam, Netherlands185.1.122.135

Transit providers

32 upstream, 267 downstream and 500 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS1299Arelion Sweden AB614
AS2914NTT America, Inc.570
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC379
AS34549meerfarbig GmbH & Co. KG165
AS3333Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)152
AS17639Converge ICT Solutions Inc.57
AS24482SG.GS57
AS37721Virtual Technologies & Solutions57

All 32 upstreams →

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 44 prefixes · 58.11K addresses IPv6 19 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
NLNetherlands63

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS12859
Registry name
NL-BIT
Registrant
AS12859-MNT
Abuse contact
abuse@bit.nl
Registered
2002-09-19
Last changed
2026-09-08
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
98% valid · 149 valid, 3 with no ROA
ROAs
240 authorising AS12859
ASPA
3 declared providers
IRR
100% registered · 152 of 152 announcements
Route objects
78 naming AS12859

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: 442 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

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