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Autonomous system

AS206356 Freifunk-Essen Freifunk Essen e.V.

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 768 2 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly DE
Exchanges 2 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 14 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Freifunk Essen

Germany · AI-generated

freifunk community nonprofit germany

The AS handle FREIFUNK-ESSEN is held by Freifunk Essen e.V.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries community wireless access, evidenced by the netname DE-FREIFUNK-ESSEN-20180726 and reverse DNS entries like 194-48-228-128.access.freifunk-essen.de.
  • The network announces 768 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 795 observed neighbours, indicating a high-connectivity community mesh or access network rather than a transit provider.
  • Traffic from this AS consists of subscriber connections for the Freifunk community, providing free, open wireless internet access in the Essen area.

Notable

  • Registrants for both announced IPv4 prefixes are Freifunk Essen e.V. NOC and Freifunk Essen e.V., matching the AS holder.
  • Freifunk Essen is a non-profit organization operating a community-driven wireless network in Essen, Germany.
  • The inventory consists of two IPv4 prefixes (194.48.228.0/23 and 194.48.231.0/24) and one IPv6 prefix (2a0c:efc0::/29).

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
DE-CIX FrankfurtFrankfurt, Germany80.81.195.178
DE-CIX DusseldorfDüsseldorf, Germany185.1.170.22

Transit providers

14 upstream, 0 downstream and 19 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS50629LWLcom GmbH108
AS47147Anexia Cloud Solutions GmbH42
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC34
AS3320Deutsche Telekom AG22
AS205112PHILUNET GmbH19
AS6797GlobalConnect AB3
AS8551Bezeq International Ltd.3
AS17639Converge ICT Solutions Inc.3

All 14 upstreams →

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-04, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
DEGermany3

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS206356
Registry name
Freifunk-Essen
Registrant
mnt-ffe
Abuse contact
noc@freifunk-essen.net
Registered
2017-02-07
Last changed
2021-09-12
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
2 authorising AS206356
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
Route objects
8 naming AS206356

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: 453 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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

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