Autonomous system
AS8368 BENESOL-BACKBONE International Backbone
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Dstny (formerly Destiny / Benesol)
business isp legacy
BENESOL-BACKBONE — the international backbone of Dstny, a Brussels-headquartered European provider of cloud business communications (UCaaS, hosted voice) and business connectivity. The handle preserves Belgian Network Solutions (Benesol), the company that was merged into Destiny NV, which later rebranded to Dstny.
What it's used for
- Backbone and access for Dstny's business customers across Belgium, the Netherlands and France. The rDNS is a museum of the group's acquisitions:
ip-A-B-C-D.reverse.destiny.beand.destiny.nl,A-B-C-D.powered-by.benesol.be, business DSL underdsdeurne.nl, and large ranges still taggednot.updated.openip-cs.netfrom the French VoIP operator OpenIP.
Notable
- A B2B network. Dstny sells cloud PBX and connectivity to companies, not consumer broadband, and the DSL-style names in the space are business access lines rather than eyeball pools.
- The ~90 scattered
/22s and/24s look at first glance like an address-broker inventory, but they are not: they are all RIPE-region, and the reverse names tie them coherently back to the operators Dstny bought. It is an acquisition trail, not a brokered one. - The handle has outlived its holder twice over — Benesol to Destiny to Dstny.
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 8 exchanges in 5 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.196.68 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.97 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.117.9 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.238.94 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Paris | Paris, France | 195.42.144.151 |
| Belgian National Internet Exchange | Brussels, Belgium | 194.53.172.108 |
| Netnod Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 195.69.119.168 |
| Netnod Sundsvall- Gävle | Sundsvall, Sweden | 194.68.128.168 |
Transit providers
35 upstream, 19 downstream and 83 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 88 prefixes · 169K addresses IPv6 14 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Belgium | 102 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8368- Registry name
- DSTNY-BACKBONE
- Registrant
- MNT-BNS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@dstny.be
- Registered
- 2006-08-22
- Last changed
- 2026-09-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- DSTNY
- Also known as
- DSTNY (destiny,benesol,ergatel,meritel/evonet/xs4all-be/openip/ulysse/ipline/ipvision/telepo/...)
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-BENESOL- Present at
- 12 exchanges
- Facilities
- 36 facilities
- Website
- http://www.dstny.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
- 92% valid · 97 valid, 8 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 112 authorising AS8368
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 105 of 105 announcements
- Route objects
- 242 naming AS8368
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