Autonomous system
AS2486 NIC-FR-DNS-UNICAST-PARIS2 AFNIC Association Francaise pour le Nommage Internet en Cooperation
Unclassified RIPE Non-Profit
Summary
AFNIC (French .fr registry)
enterprise legacy
NIC-FR-DNS-UNICAST-PARIS2 belongs to AFNIC (Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération), the non-profit operator of France's .fr top-level domain, and carries authoritative DNS for that registry.
What it's used for
- A DNS-serving network for AFNIC's
.frauthoritative nameservers, based in Paris.
Notable
- Core national internet-naming infrastructure, not a commercial ISP or host. AFNIC also operates the neighbouring AS AS2485.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.21 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.144.153 |
| Luxembourg Internet Exchange | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 188.93.170.30 |
Transit providers
12 upstream, 2 downstream and 27 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 2026-10-21, 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 · 1.28K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| FR | France | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS2486- Registry name
- NIC-FR-DNS-UNICAST-PARIS2
- Registrant
- FR-NIC-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@nic.fr
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- FR-NIC-DNS-UNICAST (AFNIC > NIC-FR > Unicast DNS)
- Also known as
- NIC-France
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-AFNIC- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.afnic.fr/
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
- 67% valid · 4 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS2486
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 67% registered · 4 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS2486
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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