Autonomous system
AS15846 COFACE RESEAU LA COFACE
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Coface
finance business enterprise
The netname is the registry's own label for a block it is holding, and the registrant is unknown.
What it's used for
- A trade credit insurer's network. One IPv4
/21announced from France, no IPv6, two thousand and forty-eight addresses, across two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The block's netname is the registry's phrase for an address block under its own management, so the name describes the registry's relationship to the addresses rather than the holder's.
- The registrant is unknown, which leaves a routed block with nobody named as responsible for it.
- The AS handle is the brand, then the word for a network, then a definite article, then the brand again.
- The holder's registered name is five words describing what the company insures, with the brand appearing only as its contraction.
- Two thousand addresses are announced as a single route behind two upstreams.
- Three addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- Blocks fall back to registry management when the holder stops maintaining the record, and the block keeps being announced regardless, because routing and registration are separate systems that nobody reconciles. The addresses work; the paperwork has lapsed.
- Trade credit insurance covers the risk that a customer in another country fails to pay. It is a business built on knowing who is good for the money, which makes an unattributable block on its own network quietly funny.
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 2026-10-16, 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 · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS15846- Registry name
- COFACE
- Registrant
- coface-mnt
- Abuse contact
- bt_io_network@coface.com
- Registered
- 2002-06-17
- Last changed
- 2025-12-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS15846
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 8 naming AS15846
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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