Autonomous system
AS208505 TURTLEBIT TurtleBit network - AS208505
Unclassified RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
TurtleBit
education research ipv6
TURTLEBIT is operated by Michael Vieira.
What it's used for
- The network announces three IPv6 prefixes:
2a0e:f43:10::/45,2a0e:f43:1a::/47, and2a0e:f43:1f::/48. - With zero IPv4 addresses and three observed neighbours, the address-to-neighbour ratio indicates a small-scale research or educational network rather than a transit provider.
- Traffic from this AS consists of academic or research endpoints, consistent with the operator's classification as an educational/research entity.
Notable
- The registry holder is listed as TURTLEBIT Michael Vieira, aligning with the AS handle.
- The address inventory is exclusively IPv6, comprising three distinct prefixes in France.
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 3 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.215.131 |
| KleyReX Internet Exchange | Frankfurt, Germany | 193.189.83.49 |
| Local Internet Exchange Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 185.1.166.70 |
Transit providers
14 upstream, 0 downstream and 14 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 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS208505- Registry name
- TURTLEBIT
- Registrant
- GRIFON-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@turtlebit.net
- Registered
- 2019-07-23
- Last changed
- 2026-08-19
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- TurtleBit
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS-TURTLEBIT- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- https://turtlebit.net
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 · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS208505
- ASPA
- 4 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS208505
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