Autonomous system
AS8649 WEBTRAFFIC
Unclassified Spamhaus ASN-DROP RIPE
Summary
ZeXoTeK IT-Services
hosting legacy
ZeXoTeK IT-Services GmbH (Webtraffic) — a small German hosting and IT-services company. The AS announces roughly 10,000 IPv4 addresses, but they split into two very different halves and only one of them belongs to ZeXoTeK.
What it's used for
- Its own provider-independent
193.107.144.0/22(DE-ZEXOTEK-PI) carries ordinary hosting: named customer servers on their own domains, an Austrian ISP's gateway, a media-software vendor's streaming host. - The much larger
176.96.96.0/19is not ZeXoTeK's allocation. It is registered to FiberLink GmbH of Vienna (AT-FIBERLINK-20110720) and merely routed by ZeXoTeK — the route object says so explicitly (IP routing via zexotek.de).
Notable
- That FiberLink /19 is wall-to-wall outbound mail infrastructure. Almost every host resolves as a mail transfer agent (
mta-…,mail-…,smx…,emx…,mxta…) under dozens of unrelated, generic-sounding domains:premium-nst.com,nst-dedicated.com,content-meltor.com,connectzonenews.com,mailtrixy.com,xhitnetwork.comand many more. That is the classic spread-out bulk-mail (snowshoe) naming pattern. - Do not geolocate the /19 to ZeXoTeK's German address. The registrant is a different company in a different country, and the AS is only its transit.
Interesting
- Two halves, two stories, one AS. Reading the holder's name alone would card this as an ordinary German hoster and miss that four-fifths of its address space is somebody else's mail farm.
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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS197071 | active 1 GmbH | 236 |
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 4 prefixes · 9.98K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8649- Registry name
- Webtraffic
- Registrant
- MNT-ZEXOTEK
- Abuse contact
- abuse@zexotek.de
- Registered
- 2010-03-01
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 25% valid · 1 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8649
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS8649
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
On Spamhaus ASN-DROP Spamhaus lists this entire
network (associated domain zexotek.de)
as controlled by, or hijacked for, cybercrime. Many operators null-route
everything it originates.
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: 432 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