Autonomous system
AS16326 SMALS-MVM
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Smals
business infrastructure hosting
Two blocks, twelve years apart, the same netname scheme both times, and nothing in reverse DNS at all.
What it's used for
- A service organisation's network. Three prefixes announced from Belgium, one of them IPv6, nine thousand two hundred and sixteen addresses, through one observed BGP neighbour.
Notable
- Both blocks use one scheme: a country code, the brand, three further letters, and a full date. The dates are twelve years apart and the format did not drift in between.
- Those three extra letters appear in the netnames and in the AS handle but in no company name anywhere in the record, so the routing label preserves an abbreviation the organisation no longer writes out.
- The holder spells the brand with a capital letter at both ends of the word. The contact on the same block spells it with one, and the netnames capitalise the whole thing.
- Each block lists the organisation and a network contact, and that is the entire contact set.
- One upstream carries all nine thousand addresses.
- Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A naming convention that survives twelve years unchanged means one team kept ownership of the registry entries for that long, which is rarer than it sounds.
- No reverse names on a network this size means the addresses face inward. Nothing here is meant to be looked up by a stranger who received traffic from it.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS2611 | BELNET | 196 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 9.22K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16326- Registry name
- SMALS-MVM
- Registrant
- SmalS vzw
- Abuse contact
- network@smals.be
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16326
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS16326
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 2026-10-29. 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