Autonomous system
AS6895 ESPANIX-RS-AS Neutral Interconect Exchange for Spain
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
ESPANIX (Spanish Internet Exchange)
ixp legacy
ESPANIX-RS-AS is the autonomous system of Asociación ESPANIX, the neutral internet exchange point of Spain, headquartered in Madrid.
What it's used for
- Running the exchange's route servers and supporting infrastructure. Reverse DNS on the announced space resolves under
espanix.net, with hostnames naming the exchange's Madrid and Barcelona sites. - Members interconnect over the exchange fabric directly. Their traffic does not transit this ASN, so the AS number reflects the exchange's own systems rather than the traffic it carries.
Notable
- An IXP is neutral interconnection infrastructure and does not map onto the usual hosting, ISP, or enterprise categories. Its address space exists to number peering LANs and management systems.
- ESPANIX is a membership association rather than a commercial company. Its IPv6 peering LAN is a /48 out of
2001:7f8::/32, the RIPE NCC block reserved for internet exchange points, which is a reliable tell that an AS is an IXP.
Interesting
- ESPANIX operates across more than one Spanish city, which lets members reach the same exchange from separate facilities. That multi-site model is now common but was not when the exchange was established.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| ESpanix Madrid Lower LAN | Madrid, Spain | 193.149.1.124 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 6 downstream and 17 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 2026-10-11, 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 · 768 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ES | Spain | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6895- Registry name
- ESPANIX-RS-AS
- Registrant
- ESPANIX-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@espanix.net
- Registered
- 2002-04-29
- Last changed
- 2025-10-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- ESpanix Route Servers
- Also known as
- Espanix
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-ESPANIX- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 6 facilities
- Website
- https://www.espanix.net
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 · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS6895
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS6895
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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