Autonomous system
AS8300 Test-AS-Main Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG — Test-AS-Main
infrastructure legacy
Test-AS-Main is an auxiliary Autonomous System of Swisscom, the Swiss incumbent telecom operator. It is not a product or a customer-facing network: as the name says, it is a test AS, registered to Swisscom and maintained under the old CH-UNISOURCE-MNT object inherited from the Unisource era.
What it's used for
- Announcing a small set of Swisscom backbone infrastructure prefixes. Every address sampled inside them resolves into
bb.ip-plus.net, Swisscom's IP-Plus backbone: router interface names of the formSITE-NNN-INTERFACE.bb.ip-plus.netcovering link and loopback addressing rather than anything a customer uses. - It sits behind Swisscom's main AS3303 and a second European upstream, and has no downstream customers of its own.
Notable
- Infrastructure only. There is no subscriber, hosting or business-access space on this AS. Swisscom's consumer and enterprise networks are numbered elsewhere, and inheriting the incumbent's kind onto this AS number would be wrong: it belongs in no ordinary category.
- Because the addresses are router interfaces, they carry backbone traffic but do not originate end-user activity. Geolocating or attributing behaviour to them as if they were subscriber addresses is a mistake.
- The
193.5.xand194.209.xranges it announces are old Swiss classful-era blocks, consistent with a low AS number in a national incumbent's estate.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 1.54K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8300- Registry name
- Test-AS-Main
- Registrant
- CH-UNISOURCE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ip-plus.net
- Registered
- 2002-04-22
- Last changed
- 2024-07-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Swisscom Lab
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://www.swisscom.com
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 · 14 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS8300
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 71% registered · 10 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 15 naming AS8300
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 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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