Autonomous system
AS16294 DSG-EMEA Descartes Systems (Belgium) NV
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Descartes Systems (Belgium)
business enterprise hosting
The abuse role on every block has abuse misspelled, and the typo has been copied seven times.
What it's used for
- A logistics software company's network. Seven IPv4 prefixes announced from Belgium, no IPv6, ten thousand four hundred and ninety-six addresses, through three observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Every block lists the same contact role, and its label misspells the word for abuse, replacing the first letter. The role is attached to all seven registrations, so the error appears everywhere the record does.
- That same role's label opens with a company name that appears in no other field, which makes the abuse contact the only trace of a third party in the record.
- Five blocks share a netname built from a country code, a maritime predecessor's name, and a full date. The dates fall in two clusters eight years apart, and three of them are within a week of each other.
- Two break the pattern: one names a communications company and the word for a network, the other four letters and the word for a network. Only the first of those omits the holder from its registrant list.
- The AS handle is three initials and four letters for a region, neither of which appears in the holder field.
- Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A misspelled role label is harmless and permanent. Mail still arrives, because the address behind it is correct, and correcting the label means editing a record that works.
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 2026-11-03, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 10.50K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16294- Registry name
- DSG-EMEA
- Registrant
- Descartes-MNT
- Abuse contact
- servicedesk@descartes.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-12-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 10 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16294
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS16294
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-04. 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