AS8804 REGIO-AS Bahnhofstr. 8, 36157 Ebersburg

REGIO-AS is regio[.NET] Holding GmbH of Ebersburg, near Fulda in Hesse. The worklist handle appends the company's postal address (Bahnhofstr. 8, 36157 Ebersburg), so the raw string reads like a street rather than a network. regio.NET set up its first internet connection in February 1996, making it the first dedicated IP service provider in its region.

What it's used for

The evidence points at a backbone and interconnect role rather than a retail access network. The AS announces only ~3,300 IPv4 addresses across three prefixes, yet shows 131 observed BGP neighbours. A small address holding behind a large peer count is the signature of a network whose business is carrying traffic, not numbering subscribers. This matches the company's own history: after a 2002 restructuring it spun off parts of the business and from 2004 concentrated on backbone and consulting, separating from the local access segment.

Sampled reverse DNS supports that read:

• lo0.core-gw1.ffm0.regio.net — a core router loopback, ffm0 for Frankfurt
• core-gw.ffm0.upstream.as — more interconnect gear

Notable

• One sampled address does return dsl.regio.net naming, a residue of the older regional access business. It is a minority of the sample and does not outweigh the router-heavy shape; the network today reads as carrier infrastructure with some legacy access space still attached.
• 192.135.7.0/24 is a legacy assignment sitting alongside more recent 94.137.152.0/21 and 193.238.196.0/22 blocks, the usual patchwork of a long-lived small German operator.