Autonomous system
AS6838 FLIRBLE-AS Christopher Luke
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
The Flirble Organisation (Christopher Luke)
hosting legacy
FLIRBLE-AS is registered to Christopher Luke and is the autonomous system behind The Flirble Organisation, a long-running, small-scale community network and hosting outfit associated with flirble.org.
What it's used for
- Community and hobbyist hosting: servers, shell and project hosting for a small circle of users, rather than a commercial provider selling capacity at scale.
- The routed IPv4 comes from a single
/21(registered asFLIX, the FLIX Organisation, London) deaggregated into its component/24s.
Notable
- An individually held AS. The registrant is a person, the technical contacts are individuals, and the whole footprint is a couple of thousand addresses.
- Networks like this are why a small IPv4 count and a personal registrant are worth checking before assuming any low-numbered AS is an institution.
Interesting
- The registry keeps a foot on each side of the Atlantic: the address space and the
FLIXobject are London-registered, while the registrant's contact address is in New Jersey.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS36236 | NetActuate, Inc | 982 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-04, 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 · 2.30K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6838- Registry name
- FLIRBLE-AS
- Registrant
- FLIRBLE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- chrisy@flirble.org
- Registered
- 2002-02-26
- Last changed
- 2019-12-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 63% valid · 15 valid, 9 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS6838
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 24 of 24 announcements
- Route objects
- 37 naming AS6838
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: 452 networks and 1,853 prefixes, as published 2026-11-05. 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