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Autonomous system

AS8937 SALINK-AS Saarland

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 10.75K 6 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly DE
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

VSE NET

Germany · AI-generated

isp business legacy

SALINK-AS is VSE NET GmbH, the telecommunications arm of the Saarland regional utility group VSE. It describes itself as the leading provider of communications and data services in the Saarland, and the handle is simply Saarland link.

What it's used for

  • Business and carrier services: fibre connectivity, virtual PBX, managed firewalls and DDoS protection, datacentre and virtual-server hosting, plus fibre-rollout work for municipalities and the public sector.
  • Roughly 10,700 IPv4 addresses, mostly the 212.18.192.0/19 block with a few older 192.x/193.24.x /24s. Announced from a small number of prefixes with no IPv6.

Notable

  • rDNS across the whole /19 is a single generated pattern: NNN-NNN-NNN-NNN.ip-addr.vsenet.de, with the octets reversed and zero-padded. There are no dsl-, pppoe- or dynamic-pool conventions anywhere, which is what separates this from a consumer eyeball network.
  • The utility-owned regional carrier is a common German shape: a Stadtwerke or regional energy company that already owns ducts and rights of way turns them into a fibre business aimed at companies, public bodies and other carriers.

Interesting

  • The old 192.109.199.0/24 and 192.54.36.0/24 blocks it still announces are early European allocations, far older than the 212.18 range that carries the bulk of the network — remnants that a regional carrier keeps because renumbering customers is never worth 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

Full topology · Graph

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.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS9063VSE NET GmbH406

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 6 prefixes · 10.75K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
DEGermany6

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS8937
Registry name
SALINK-AS
Registrant
VSE NET GmbH
Abuse contact
abuse@vsenet.de
Registered
2002-07-06
Last changed
2017-11-15
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
86% valid · 6 valid, 1 with no ROA
ROAs
9 authorising AS8937
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
Route objects
14 naming AS8937

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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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

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