Autonomous system
AS8874 BARTELS_FE
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Oliver Bartels F+E
enterprise legacy
BARTELS_FE is the autonomous system of Oliver Bartels F+E, a small Munich engineering firm best known as the maker of the Bartels AutoEngineer EDA suite and the Bartels Autorouter. The AS carries the company's own network, not a customer base.
What it's used for
Corporate and product infrastructure for a single German engineering company. AS8874 originates a single IPv4 /24, and the sampled reverse DNS lands entirely in bartels.de: a nameserver (ns.bartels.de) and an internal host (octoivm.bartels.de). There is no subscriber-style naming (dsl-, pppoe-, pool.) anywhere in the space, and RIS observes just one neighbour, so this is a single-homed end-site network rather than an ISP.
Notable
- Roughly 256 addresses across one prefix and one upstream. This is about as small as a routed AS gets while still being a genuine independent network.
- The company's work spans PCB/IC design automation, hardware and software development, and sports timing/diagnostics systems. The AS exists to give that business its own provider-independent addressing.
- Registered contacts and reverse DNS agree on the holder, so the space geolocates honestly to Germany.
Interesting
Bartels has been in circuit-layout automation since the late 1980s, and its EDA tooling was used in early GSM hardware development. The AS number is an early RIPE-era allocation to a company that never grew into an ISP, and never needed to.
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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
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS8767 | M-net Telekommunikations GmbH | 58 |
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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8874- Registry name
- BARTELS_FE
- Registrant
- BARTELS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- oliver@bartels.de
- Registered
- 2015-10-08
- Last changed
- 2025-05-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS8874
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS8874
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 1,773 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