Autonomous system
AS15669 BIX-BG Bulgarian Internet eXchange BIX.BG ltd.
Unclassified RIPE Route Server
Summary
BIX.BG
infrastructure telecom business
An internet exchange's own number, carrying five hundred and twelve addresses and nine neighbours.
What it's used for
- An internet exchange operator's network. One IPv4
/23and one IPv6 prefix announced from Bulgaria, five hundred and twelve addresses, across nine observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle spells out the exchange's full name and puts a capital letter in the middle of the word "exchange", then finishes with the legal form in lower case.
- The holder name contains a dot, which is part of the brand rather than a separator.
- The single announced IPv4 block is
91.237.102.0/23, registered under a netname that is the abbreviated brand and nothing more. - The block lists the operator and an abuse role.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
- The routing archive's earliest observation is the first day it holds data, so this number predates the record.
Interesting
- An exchange moves far more traffic than this number ever sees. The switching fabric that members connect to needs no autonomous system at all; what the number carries is the route servers, measurement hosts and management addresses that sit beside it.
- Nine neighbours on five hundred and twelve addresses is the shape that gives it away. Members peer with the route servers, so the neighbour count tracks the exchange's business while the address count stays fixed.
- This is the second exchange in this stretch of numbers. Both were registered when a country's first exchange was still a single organisation with a single small block.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian Internet eXchange | Sofia, Bulgaria | 193.169.198.10 |
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
IPv4 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BG | Bulgaria | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15669- Registry name
- BIX-BG
- Registrant
- BIX-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bix.bg
- Registered
- 2009-07-30
- Last changed
- 2026-09-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- BIX.BG Route Servers
- Also known as
- BIX.BG
- Network type
- Route Server
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-BIX-BG- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 8 facilities
- Website
- https://www.bix.bg/
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
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS15669
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS15669
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 1,773 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