Autonomous system
AS8902 IFB Internet For Business Limited
Residential RIPE
Summary
IFB (Internet For Business) / CCS Connectivity
enterprise isp legacy
IFB is Internet For Business, an Aberdeen ISP founded in 1995 that served the north-east Scotland business market, notably the oil-and-gas sector. It went into administration in February 2025 and was bought by Converged Communication Solutions (CCS); the RIPE holder is now IFB CCS Connectivity Limited.
What it's used for
- Business internet access, colocation and managed IT for corporate customers, concentrated on Aberdeen and the surrounding region.
- Sampled rDNS shows fixed customer assignments (
80-76-112-1.ifb.co.uk) and the operator's own core routers (loop0.rtr-01.core.abz2.ifb.net—abzis the IATA code for Aberdeen). No dynamic, DSL or PPPoE naming appears in the sample.
Notable
- About 15.6k IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes plus one IPv6 prefix, with roughly 58 observed BGP neighbours — small in address terms but genuinely multi-homed and peered, as an independent regional ISP has to be.
- The anchor block is a legacy
194.105.160.0/19seen in the routing table since at least 2000.
Interesting
- The acquisition merged Aberdeen's two largest ISPs. The handle
IFBsurvives on the AS and in the rDNS, so addresses here still identify asifb.co.uk/ifb.neteven though the operating company is now CCS — a reminder that a handle outlives the company that registered it.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.206 |
| LINX Scotland | Scotland, United Kingdom | 195.66.246.7 |
Transit providers
16 upstream, 2 downstream and 27 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 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 15.62K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8902- Registry name
- IFB
- Registrant
- IFB-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ifb.net
- Registered
- 2002-09-16
- Last changed
- 2026-02-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 83% valid · 5 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS8902
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS8902
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: 442 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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