Autonomous system
AS8203 Bezeq International
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Bezeq International
legacy
A small, legacy Autonomous System of Bezeq International Ltd., one of Israel's major internet providers. The RIPE as-name is literally UNSPECIFIED, which is an accurate summary of what the registry says about it.
What it's used for
- Announces only three prefixes — roughly 3,000 addresses — from two legacy allocations registered to Bezeq International. Its single upstream is AS8551, Bezeq International's main Autonomous System.
- There is no reverse DNS anywhere in the space, and no downstream networks.
Notable
- Do not inherit Bezeq International's eyeball kind onto this AS. The company's subscribers sit behind AS8551; AS8203 is a small heritage AS carrying a couple of old blocks. Nothing observable says what those addresses do, so it is left unclassified rather than guessed at.
- The RIPE netnames (
IL-BEZEQ-INTERNATIONAL-19930901and…19930902) encode September 1993 allocation dates, so the address space itself is genuinely early — unlike the aut-num's1970-01-01created date, which is a RIPE placeholder for pre-database objects and means nothing.
Interesting
- Two blocks allocated back in 1993 still sit under the same holder more than thirty years later, announced from an AS the registry no longer bothers to describe.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS8551 | Bezeq International Ltd. | 189 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, 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 · 3.07K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IL | Israel | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8203- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- AS8203-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bezeqint.net
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS8203
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS8203
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: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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