Autonomous system
AS6799 OTENET-GR Athens - Greece
Residential RIPE
Summary
OTEnet (OTE / Cosmote, Greece)
isp residential eyeball legacy
OTENET-GR — the consumer internet network of OTE SA (Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation), Greece's incumbent telecom operator and part of the Deutsche Telekom group. OTEnet was OTE's internet service arm, later folded into the OTE/Cosmote retail business.
What it's used for
- Greek residential and small-business broadband. Reverse DNS on the subscriber blocks is unambiguous:
ppp-2-84-10-20.home.otenet.gr. - The AS carries roughly two million IPv4 addresses across large blocks such as
79.128.0.0/16,2.84.0.0/16,85.74.0.0/16and178.147.0.0/16.
Notable
- This is Greece's largest eyeball network — an incumbent access AS, not a transit or hosting one.
- The
otenet.grdomain persists in reverse DNS long after the OTEnet brand was retired in favour of Cosmote, a familiar fossil in incumbent networks.
Interesting
- Because so much Greek residential traffic sits behind this one AS, it is a common single point of reference in Greek geolocation and abuse data.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Greek Internet Exchange - Athens | Athens, Greece | 176.126.38.24 |
| Greek Internet Exchange - Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki, Greece | 185.1.123.11 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 119 prefixes · 1.97M addresses IPv6 62 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GR | Greece | 181 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6799- Registry name
- OTENET-GR
- Registrant
- Ote SA (Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation)
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ote.gr
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-09-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 98% valid · 117 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 165 authorising AS6799
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 120 of 120 announcements
- Route objects
- 513 naming AS6799
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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