Autonomous system
AS8283 COLOCLUE-AS Netwerkvereniging Coloclue, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Netwerkvereniging Coloclue
hosting colo community legacy
COLOCLUE-AS belongs to Netwerkvereniging Coloclue, a Dutch non-profit network association based around Amsterdam. Members pay dues, rack their own machines in the association's cabinets, and get address space and connectivity from the shared AS. It is run by volunteers, and its BGP peering config is maintained publicly as a Git repository.
What it's used for
- Colocated servers belonging to members: mail, web, DNS, personal and small business infrastructure. Reverse DNS is a scattering of member-owned domains rather than any provider template, which is exactly what a members' association looks like from the outside.
- The AS buys transit from several Dutch carriers and peers extensively at AMS-IX, NL-IX and other exchanges. Its published peering list runs to hundreds of networks, which is remarkable for an organisation of its size.
Notable
- Server space, but not a commercial host. Addresses here are machines in a datacentre, so the traffic profile is hosting; the operator, however, is a volunteer association and the addresses are assigned to individual members. A single organisational attribution for any given IP is usually wrong.
- Coloclue is well known in the European network-operator community as a place people learn to run real BGP, which is why its RIPE object carries an unusually detailed BGP-community and routing-policy specification.
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 11 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.197.51 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.211.161 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.203 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.238.29 |
| The Frys Internet Exchange | Frysian, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:10f::205b:187 |
| Speed Internet Exchange | Dronten, Netherlands | 185.1.222.16 |
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.53.24 |
| InterIX Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2001:7f8:134::16 |
Transit providers
29 upstream, 47 downstream and 130 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 3.33K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8283- Registry name
- COLOCLUE-AS
- Registrant
- coloclue-mnt
- Abuse contact
- abuse@coloclue.net
- Registered
- 2003-06-23
- Last changed
- 2026-10-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 17 authorising AS8283
- ASPA
- 5 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS8283
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: 442 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