Autonomous system
AS8590 BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
BMW Group
enterprise automotive legacy
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG — the BMW Group, the Munich carmaker behind BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce. The AS carries the company's own corporate network.
What it's used for
- Enterprise IT for a global manufacturer: corporate services, mail and internet-facing gateways. Sampled reverse DNS resolves into
bmwgroup.comandbmw.com(for examplesmtu.bmwgroup.com), so the space is used by BMW itself rather than leased out. - About 16,400 IPv4 addresses across 29 prefixes, plus a substantial IPv6 footprint (15 prefixes), mostly announced as individual /24s from
160.46.0.0/16,160.48.0.0/16,192.109.xand193.23.x.
Notable
- The many-small-prefixes pattern is not the scattered, third-party inventory of an address broker: every block is BMW's own space, announced from BMW's own AS, with first-party reverse DNS. It reflects an enterprise carving up legacy blocks across sites and internet gateways.
- Five observed neighbours — multi-homed to a handful of carriers, as an enterprise of this size would be, with no downstream customers.
Interesting
- BMW holds
192.109.63.0/24,192.109.64.0/24and192.109.65.0/24, part of the old European192.109/16allocations handed out in the pre-CIDR era. Its connectivity long predates the commercial internet in Germany.
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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
5 upstream, 0 downstream and 10 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 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 18 prefixes · 16.90K addresses IPv6 11 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 29 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8590- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- AS8590-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@m-online.net
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2026-03-02
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 38 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8590
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 38 of 38 announcements
- Route objects
- 55 naming AS8590
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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