Autonomous system
AS3247 INS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
INS GmbH
hosting legacy
INS is INS GmbH, a mid-sized German IT services provider based in Castrop-Rauxel, operating data centres in Germany and Switzerland.
What it's used for
- Managed IT infrastructure for business customers: planning, running and hosting servers and applications, from web hosting up to full managed cloud environments.
- The routed footprint is very small, so this is a service provider's own infrastructure range rather than a large hosting estate.
Notable
- This is a business hosting address. IPs here are customer-facing services and managed systems, not residential subscribers.
- A tiny allocation behind an established provider usually means most customer workloads sit on infrastructure addressed elsewhere, with this range carrying core and legacy services.
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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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS15368 | Intares GmbH | 65 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-22, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3247- Registry name
- INS
- Registrant
- INS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ins.net
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS3247
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS3247
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 2026-10-23. 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