Autonomous system
AS6733 BFARM Germany
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
BfArM (German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices)
government legacy
The network of the Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM), the German federal agency in Bonn that licenses medicines and regulates medical devices. It sits within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Health.
What it's used for
- Carrying the agency's own systems: the regulatory and pharmacovigilance services it runs, and the public-facing information systems that go with them.
- The space is shared with at least one sibling federal health body — reverse DNS on it resolves to the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), the federal centre for health education.
Notable
- Government address space. Two small provider-independent /24s, held directly by the institute rather than rented from an ISP, which is the usual shape for a federal agency that wants its addressing to outlive any one contract.
- The AS object is maintained under
DFN-MNT— DFN being the German national research and education network — reflecting the agency's connectivity into the public research network rather than a purely commercial ISP.
Interesting
- The netnames on both prefixes still read
DIMDI, for the German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information. DIMDI was absorbed into BfArM, and the address blocks came with it; the registry simply never renamed them. The technical contact on the objects is still listed at the old DIMDI address in Cologne while the administrative contact sits at BfArM in Bonn.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, 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 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6733- Registry name
- BfArM
- Registrant
- DFN-MNT
- Abuse contact
- it.helpdesk@bfarm.de
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-11-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6733
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS6733
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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