Autonomous system
AS286 KPN
Transit RIPE NSP
Summary
GTT (former KPN International / Eurorings)
transit backbone
AS286 (KPN) was the backbone of KPN International / KPN Eurorings — the Dutch incumbent's international wholesale arm — now a legacy ASN under GTT Communications.
What it's used for
- Historically, pan-European IP transit and wholesale backbone services (the "Eurorings" network), distinct from KPN's Dutch consumer broadband.
Notable
- GTT acquired KPN International in 2019 and migrated the network into its primary backbone AS3257 by 2021. AS286 is now marked legacy/deprecated and is largely no longer announced.
- Seeing AS286 in older data reflects the pre-GTT Eurorings backbone rather than a currently active independent carrier.
Interesting
- "Eurorings" referred to KPN's ring-based European fibre topology, once one of the larger carrier backbones on the continent.
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 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 2001:7f8::11e:0:1 |
| Rotterdam Internet eXchange | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 91.194.218.89 |
| DE-CIX Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany | 2001:7f8:3d::11e:0:1 |
| Megaport Frankfurt IX | Frankfurt, Germany | 2001:7f8:8:20:0:11e:0:1 |
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 0 prefixes · 0 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
This network announces no prefixes we can see.
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS286- Registry name
- KPN
- Registrant
- AS3257-NET-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@gtt.net
- Registered
- 2002-09-06
- Last changed
- 2022-10-31
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- GTT Communications
- Also known as
- GTT (former KPN International / KPN Eurorings)
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Global
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- Website
- https://as286.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
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS286
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- Route objects
- 60 naming AS286
Reputation
Classification and threat
Transit Tier-1 or major backbone carrying other networks’ traffic.
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: 432 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