Autonomous system
AS8271 CH-IBS-AS8271
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Internet Business Solutions AG (networx.ch)
hosting colo legacy
CH-IBS-AS8271 is run by Internet Business Solutions AG of Zurich, which operates under the networx.ch brand. The company describes itself today as a networking consultancy with deep BGP and open-source routing experience, but it also runs a real network: one RIPE allocation, 62.48.0.0/19, an IPv6 /32, an open peering policy and a presence at the Equinix internet exchange in Zurich.
What it's used for
- Mostly server housing. The RIPE sub-assignments inside the /19 are unusually candid:
CH-IBS-HOUSING-1/2/3andCH-IBS-FOSS(server housing, including for open-source projects),CH-IBS-DNS,CH-IBS-INFRASTRUCTUREfor routers and switches,CH-IBS-OFFICE,CH-IBS-WANfor links, andCH-IBS-VPNfor VPN tunnel customers. - A single downstream AS is visible behind it, so it also acts as a small upstream.
Notable
- Reverse DNS is almost entirely absent outside the routers (
core1.networx.ch), so the registry sub-assignments, not rDNS, are what identify the space here. - Small and coherent: roughly eight thousand addresses, one country, one allocation, no third-party or multi-RIR blocks. This is an operator's own network, not brokered space.
- One /24 is registered as a testnet for 4-byte AS experiments, a reminder that the operator's background is in routing software rather than mass hosting.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | 194.42.48.2 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8271- Registry name
- CH-IBS-AS8271
- Registrant
- AS8271-MNT
- Abuse contact
- oppermann@networx.ch
- Registered
- 2002-08-20
- Last changed
- 2025-02-10
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8271
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS8271
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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