Autonomous system
AS215842 PAAL-AS paal.network
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Erwin Paal
research ipv6 personal
PAAL-AS is operated by Erwin Paal, a researcher associated with Hogeschool Saxion in Enschede, Netherlands.
What it's used for
- The address space consists exclusively of three IPv6 prefixes:
2a12:bec0:5d0::/46,2a12:bec0:5d6::/48, and2a12:bec0:5da::/48. - With zero IPv4 addresses and five observed neighbours, the network functions as a small-scale research or educational endpoint rather than a transit or access provider.
- Traffic from this AS represents research infrastructure and network testing tools, including Globalping lookups, associated with academic work in the Netherlands.
Notable
- The registry holder and PeeringDB profile both identify Erwin Paal, confirming the operator identity.
- The address inventory is minimal, comprising only three IPv6 prefixes with no IPv4 allocation, typical of a personal or academic research network.
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 2026-10-27, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS215842- Registry name
- PAAL
- Registrant
- Erwin Paal
- Abuse contact
- abuse@erwinpaal.net
- Registered
- 2023-12-13
- Last changed
- 2026-07-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS215842
- ASPA
- 5 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS215842
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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