Autonomous system
AS8612 TISCALI-
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Tiscali Italia
isp eyeball legacy
TISCALI-IT — Tiscali Italia S.p.A., the Italian internet provider founded in Cagliari, Sardinia in 1998. This is Tiscali's main consumer access network.
What it's used for
- Mass-market broadband and mobile for Italian households. Roughly half a million IPv4 addresses across 20 prefixes, including several full /16s and a /15 — the shape of an incumbent-scale eyeball network.
- The rDNS says exactly what the space carries, and the labels are unusually self-documenting:
dynamic-adsl-IP-DASHED.clienti.tiscali.itfor DSL subscribers,ppp-IP-DASHED.dialup.tiscali.itfor the legacy dial-up pools,static-IP-DASHED.clienti.tiscali.itfor fixed-address customers, andIP-DASHED.client-mvno.tiscali.itfor Tiscali's mobile virtual network. - Backbone routers are named in the old Cisco style (
c7206IBGP-MIfor Milan,GWC206-CAfor Cagliari) undernet.tiscali.it.
Notable
- A genuine eyeball network, and the inventory backs the marketing for once — dynamic subscriber pools dominate, exactly as a consumer ISP should look.
- The
dialupzone is still delegated and still answers. Tiscali grew out of the dial-up era and the naming was never cleaned up.
Interesting
- Tiscali once ran a pan-European group with operations across half a dozen countries. That empire was sold off piece by piece through the 2000s, leaving the Italian business, and its legacy AS number, behind in Sardinia.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.66.18 |
| Roma Internet Exchange Point | Rome, Italy | 193.201.28.42 |
| Torino Piemonte Exchange Point | Torino, Italy | 194.116.96.78 |
| Milan Neutral Access Point | Milan, Italy | 185.1.114.45 |
Transit providers
11 upstream, 7 downstream and 24 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 2026-10-25, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 25 prefixes · 525K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IT | Italy | 26 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8612- Registry name
- TISCALI-IT
- Registrant
- lir-it-smeraldo-1-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@tiscali.com
- Registered
- 2001-12-20
- Last changed
- 2026-08-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Tiscali
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
AS-TISCALI-8612- Present at
- 5 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.tiscali.it
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 · 21 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS8612
- ASPA
- 2 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 21 of 21 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS8612
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. 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