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Autonomous system

AS680 DFN Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 7.67M 376 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 154 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly DE
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

DFN (German National Research and Education Network)

Germany · AI-generated

education research legacy

The Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN), Germany's national research and education

network, run by the Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V.

What it's used for

  • Connecting German universities and research institutions to a shared national research network (an NREN).

Notable

  • A research / education network serving institutions, not a commercial ISP.
  • Holds a very large legacy IPv4 footprint reflecting its role connecting the German research community.
  • The low AS number reflects an allocation from the internet's earliest years.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.

Address space

Summary

Full explorer
CountryNamePrefixes
DEGermany530

Registry

Allocation record

via RIPE RDAP
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS680
Registry name
DFN
Registrant
DFN-MNT
Abuse contact
abuse@dfn.de
Registered
2002-09-20
Last changed
2026-05-18
Status
active

Reputation

Classification and threat

Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.

No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.

Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.

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