Autonomous system
AS249 PACKETSTAR European Network
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Packet Star Networks
hosting legacy
Packet Star Networks (PACKETSTAR), a European hosting and connectivity provider operating a metro network across London, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt.
What it's used for
- Hosting and network services for a commercial provider in the RIPE region.
Notable
- Unlike most of its low-numbered neighbours, this is a present-day commercial hosting network rather than an institutional or government one.
- The low AS number is a legacy RIPE allocation now used by a modern operator.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.227.96 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.80.30 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 6 downstream and 21 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EU | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS249- Registry name
- PACKETSTAR
- Registrant
- AS249-MNT
- Registered
- 2002-08-21
- Last changed
- 2024-10-31
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS249
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS249
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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