Autonomous system
AS5396 AS-IRIDEOS-MC
Unclassified RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Retelit Digital Services (formerly MC-link)
isp enterprise legacy
AS-IRIDEOS-MC is registered to Retelit Digital Services S.p.A. in Milan. The MC in the handle is the giveaway: this was MC-link's network, which passed to Irideos and then, after Irideos and Retelit were merged in 2022, to the combined company.
What it's used for
- Business connectivity and data centre services in Italy, under a group that positions itself as the main alternative to the incumbent for B2B fibre and colocation.
Notable
- A B2B network, not a consumer one. The block is small, a few thousand addresses, and the group's bulk of traffic rides other AS numbers it also holds.
- The AS name still preserves two dead brands, MC-link and Irideos, which is a good illustration of why an AS handle should never be trusted as the current holder.
Interesting
- MC-link grew out of a bulletin board run by the Italian computing magazine MCmicrocomputer and became one of Italy's earliest commercial internet providers. The AS number outlasted the magazine, the BBS, and two rounds of acquisition.
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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, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS3302 | Retelit Digital Services S.p.A. | 296 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5396- Registry name
- AS-IRIDEOS-MC
- Registrant
- AS3302-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@retelit.it
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-12-18
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Retelit S.p.A. (formerly MC-Link)
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-MCLINK- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- https://retelit.it/
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
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 5 authorising AS5396
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 80% registered · 4 of 5 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS5396
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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