Autonomous system
AS16082 SPITFIRE
Unclassified AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Spitfire Network Services
isp telecom business
The reverse zone labels which addresses are the network and broadcast ones, in capitals.
What it's used for
- A business provider. Twelve IPv4 prefixes and one IPv6
/32announced from the United Kingdom, seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-two addresses, across eighty-eight observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- All eighteen queried addresses answered. The first address of each range is named with the word for a network in capitals, the last with the word for a broadcast, and both use only three of the four numbers.
- Ordinary addresses in between get all four numbers in lower case, so the zone marks the two addresses in every range that cannot be used.
- One address answers as a mail server on a customer's own domain, the single exception in the sample.
- Eleven netnames share a country code, the brand and a date, and the dates run from the late nineteen-nineties to well into the following decade, one or two a year.
- The twelfth uses different initials with a much later date, from an acquisition or a separate service.
- Eighty-eight neighbours for eighty thousand addresses.
Interesting
- Publishing the network and broadcast addresses by name is unusual and genuinely useful. Anyone scanning or diagnosing can see the boundaries of each customer range without guessing at the prefix length.
- A provider that has collected a block almost every year for two decades has a different shape from one that bought a large allocation early. The address space is a record of continuous sales rather than a single bet.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.199 |
Transit providers
21 upstream, 1 downstream and 31 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 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 79.87K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS16082- Registry name
- SPITFIRE
- Registrant
- Spitfire Network Services Limited
- Abuse contact
- abuse@spitfireuk.net
- Registered
- 2001-11-14
- Last changed
- 2025-03-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Spitfire Network Services Ltd
- Also known as
- Spitfire
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-SPITFIRE- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.spitfire.co.uk
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
- 92% valid · 12 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS16082
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 13 naming AS16082
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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