Autonomous system
AS5564 SOL-AS Commercial internet service provider
Hosting RIPE Content
Summary
Brightsolid Online Technology Ltd
hosting legacy
SOL-AS is Brightsolid, a Scottish cloud and data centre operator based in Dundee and part of the DC Thomson group. The handle preserves its former identity as Scotland Online, one of Scotland's early commercial ISPs.
What it's used for
- Colocation, managed hosting and hybrid cloud out of Brightsolid's Dundee and Aberdeen data centres, plus connectivity for those hosted customers.
- The business today is squarely a hosting and data-sovereignty provider, not the consumer ISP the
SOLhandle originally stood for.
Notable
- The registry description still reads "commercial internet service provider", a leftover of the Scotland Online era. The inventory and the facilities tell the current story: data centre space, not subscriber access.
- Brightsolid peers at LINX Scotland, keeping Scottish traffic local rather than hauling it to London.
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 | 195.66.225.60 |
| LINX Scotland | Scotland, United Kingdom | 195.66.246.5 |
Transit providers
17 upstream, 1 downstream and 26 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 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 8 prefixes · 16.38K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 9 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS5564- Registry name
- SOL-AS
- Registrant
- AS5564-MNT
- Abuse contact
- ipadmin@brightsolid.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2019-09-03
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Brightsolid
- Also known as
- Scotland Online
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-SOL- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.brightsolid.com
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 · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS5564
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS5564
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 447 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