Autonomous system
AS42953 INEX-CORK
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
INEX Cork
peering exchange infrastructure ireland
INEX-CORK is operated by Internet Neutral Exchange Association Company Limited By Guarantee.
What it's used for
- The address space carries management and peering infrastructure, evidenced by netnames
IE-INEX-20160329andIE-INEX-INEXCORK-MGMT1. - With 512 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix announced against a single observed neighbour, the AS functions as a dedicated peering point rather than a transit or access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of inter-provider peering sessions and exchange point management traffic for the INEX Cork facility.
Notable
- Registrants for both announced prefixes are listed as INEX Network Operations, consistent with the announcer.
- INEX Cork launched in 2016 as a standalone regional peering exchange located in the CloudCIX facility in Hollyhill, Cork City.
- The inventory consists of two /24 IPv4 blocks and one /32 IPv6 prefix, all located in Ireland.
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
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS47720 | Cork Internet Exchange Limited | 154 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IE | Ireland | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS42953- Registry name
- INEX-CORK
- Registrant
- INEX-NOC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@inex.ie
- Registered
- 2017-02-28
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS42953
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS42953
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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