Autonomous system
AS39537 HNS www.hns.net
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
HNS
business connectivity managed-services
HNS is operated by SysGroup plc.
What it's used for
- The address space carries business connectivity and managed IT services, evidenced by netnames such as
UK-SYSGROUP-19970903andUK-INSTILLER-20150618, and reverse DNS entries like87-237.67-255.hns.netandrockford-it.net. - The AS announces 23,296 IPv4 addresses across 21 prefixes and 3 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 72 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space against a high neighbour count indicates a role focused on business connectivity and network interconnection rather than mass residential access.
- Traffic from this AS consists of business connectivity, cloud connections (including Azure and AWS), and managed IT services for clients in sectors such as healthcare, legal, and manufacturing.
Notable
- Registrants largely align with the announcer, with most prefixes registered to
SysGroup plcunder theSYSGROUP-RIPE-DB-MAINTAINERSmaintainer, though one prefix (185.105.64.0/22) is registered toInstiller Limited. - SysGroup plc acquired 100% of Hub Network Services Limited (HNS), the original holder of this AS, integrating it into their managed services portfolio.
- The inventory includes a mix of /20, /21, /22, /23, and /24 prefixes, with the largest block being
195.94.112.0/20.
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 | 195.66.226.108 |
| LINX Manchester | Manchester, United Kingdom | 195.66.244.52 |
Transit providers
18 upstream, 4 downstream and 28 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 21 prefixes · 23.30K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 24 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS39537- Registry name
- HNS
- Registrant
- MNT-HNS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@sysgroup.com
- Registered
- 2006-03-15
- Last changed
- 2025-02-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 96% valid · 25 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 27 authorising AS39537
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 81% registered · 21 of 26 announcements 4 other origin
- Route objects
- 178 naming AS39537
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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