Autonomous system
AS2611 BELNET
Education RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
BELNET
education research legacy
BELNET is Belgium's national research and education network (NREN), operated by the Belgian federal science-policy administration.
What it's used for
- Connecting Belgian universities, schools, research centres, and government bodies to each other and the global academic internet.
Notable
- A national research/education backbone, not a commercial ISP. The low AS number reflects an early European academic-networking allocation.
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 4 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.161 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.208.43 |
| Luxembourg Internet Exchange | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 188.93.170.111 |
| Belgian National Internet Exchange | Brussels, Belgium | 194.53.172.65 |
Transit providers
34 upstream, 14 downstream and 78 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 40 prefixes · 867K addresses IPv6 45 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 85 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS2611- Registry name
- BELNET
- Registrant
- BELNET-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@belnet.be
- Registered
- 2002-02-01
- Last changed
- 2026-07-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- BELNET
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-BELNET- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- https://www.belnet.be
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
- 35% valid · 16 valid, 30 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 19 authorising AS2611
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 43 of 46 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 60 naming AS2611
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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