Autonomous system
AS199670 DNS-ANYCAST DNS.be Anycast - Toplevel .be domain registry
Unclassified RIPE Non-Profit
Summary
DNS Belgium
dns anycast registry infrastructure
DNS-ANYCAST is operated by DNS Belgium VZW, the registry for the .be top-level domain.
What it's used for
- The address space carries DNS infrastructure, identified by the netname
DNSBE-ANYCASTacross all four announced IPv4 prefixes. - The AS announces 1024 IPv4 addresses and 4 IPv6 prefixes, peering with 110 neighbours; this high neighbour-to-address ratio indicates a transit or interconnection role rather than an access network.
- Traffic consists of DNS query and response packets for the .be domain, served via anycast from multiple locations.
Notable
- All registrants align with the announcer, listing DNS Belgium General Manager, Technical Contacts, and Abuse contacts under DNS-Belgium VZW.
- The inventory consists of four /24 IPv4 blocks and four /48 IPv6 blocks, all dedicated to the anycast DNS service.
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 5 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.98 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.210.166 |
| Rotterdam Internet eXchange | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 91.194.218.87 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.118.12 |
| Belgian National Internet Exchange | Brussels, Belgium | 194.53.172.122 |
Transit providers
37 upstream, 0 downstream and 58 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 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS199670- Registry name
- DNS-ANYCAST
- Registrant
- DNS-BE
- Abuse contact
- ripe-abuse@dnsbelgium.be
- Registered
- 2012-10-12
- Last changed
- 2026-02-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- DNS Belgium VZW - Anycast
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS199670:AS-ALL- Present at
- 7 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- https://www.dnsbelgium.be
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
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS199670
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS199670
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 1,849 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