Autonomous system
AS16151 BRODOS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Brodos
business enterprise hosting
Every address in the sample answers with the same name, and that name says the address is not in use.
What it's used for
- A distribution company's network. A single IPv4 prefix announced from Germany, no IPv6, two hundred and fifty-six addresses, through two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- All three queried addresses answered, and all three gave the identical name: two letters for an address, a hyphen, and a phrase declaring the address unused, on the company's own domain.
- That phrase is written with a capital in the middle of the word, so it was typed by hand into a zone file rather than produced by a generator.
- The same name for every address means the zone maps the whole range to one label, which is a wildcard record rather than a set of individual entries.
- The netname is the brand plus the word for a network, and the block is registered to the company with a role for abuse.
Interesting
- Declaring a range unused in its own reverse names is a genuinely useful signal. Mail systems and log readers can tell at a glance that nothing is supposed to be answering there, which makes anything that does answer worth a second look.
- A wildcard reverse record is the least effort that still produces an answer, and it is the reason the same string appears at three addresses that have nothing else in common.
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 2026-10-27, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16151- Registry name
- BRODOS
- Registrant
- BRODOS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse-c@brodos.de
- Registered
- 2001-11-16
- Last changed
- 2021-02-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16151
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS16151
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: 446 networks and 1,852 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