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Autonomous system

AS42465 FORCEPOINT-ANYCAST-AS

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 256 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly GB
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Forcepoint

United Kingdom · AI-generated

security anycast business uk

FORCEPOINT-ANYCAST-AS is operated by Forcepoint UK Limited.

What it's used for

  • The space carries security infrastructure, evidenced by the netname UK-FORCEPOINT and reverse DNS entries pointing to gns0.blackspider.com.
  • The AS announces 256 IPv4 addresses across 1 prefix with 1 observed neighbour, indicating a small, dedicated anycast footprint rather than a transit or access network.
  • Traffic from this AS consists of security service endpoints, specifically hosted email security and threat intelligence services provided by Forcepoint.

Notable

  • Registrants align with the announcer, listing Forcepoint Network Operations and Forcepoint UK Limited.
  • Forcepoint was formed in 2016 through the merger of Websense, Stonesoft, and Sidewinder, and was later acquired by Raytheon.
  • The address inventory is a single /24 block, consistent with a specific service deployment rather than a broad corporate estate.

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

Full topology · Graph

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.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS44444Forcepoint UK Limited59

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
GBUnited Kingdom1

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS42465
Registry name
FORCEPOINT-ANYCAST-AS
Registrant
BST-NOC
Abuse contact
noc@forcepoint.com
Registered
2007-02-23
Last changed
2025-11-13
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
1 authorising AS42465
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
Route objects
4 naming AS42465

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

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