Autonomous system
AS8694 RET-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
RET (Rotterdamse Electrische Tram)
enterprise transport legacy
RET N.V. (RET-AS) — Rotterdamse Electrische Tram — is the public transport operator for Rotterdam and its region, running the city's metro, tram, bus and ferry services. This AS carries RET's own corporate and operational network.
What it's used for
- Enterprise IT for a transit authority: offices, depots, stations, and the systems behind ticketing, passenger information and vehicle operations. About 6,100 IPv4 addresses in three contiguous
193.177.x/21s (RIPE netnameRETNET) plus one IPv6 /48. - The rDNS is generic
IP-ADDR.biz.kpn.net, i.e. KPN's business-customer zone — RET is a KPN enterprise customer and the space is maintained under KPN's customer maintainer. There is no hosting, subscriber or public-facing naming.
Notable
- This is corporate address space belonging to a transport company, not an ISP, not a hosting network, and not consumer eyeball space — despite the AS looking like a small regional provider from its size. Two BGP neighbours and no downstreams confirm it: RET announces only its own network.
- The company name is a museum piece in itself: "Rotterdam Electric Tram" has been RET's legal name since the municipal tramway was electrified, long after the network grew to include metro lines and a fast ferry.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 6.14K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8694- Registry name
- RET-AS
- Registrant
- MNT-KPN-CUS
- Abuse contact
- abuse@kpnmail.nl
- Registered
- 2009-11-02
- Last changed
- 2021-05-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS8694
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS8694
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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