Autonomous system
AS8953 ASN-ORANGE-ROMANIA
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Orange Romania
isp mobile eyeball legacy
ASN-ORANGE-ROMANIA is the main network of Orange România S.A., the country's largest mobile operator and, since the fixed-line business was folded into the brand, a converged fixed-and-mobile provider. Roughly 226,000 IPv4 addresses across ~30 prefixes, with a very large peering footprint.
What it's used for
- Subscriber access. rDNS across the network is a uniform generic pattern of the form
92-180-0-1.orangero.net— the dashed-IP convention that operators apply wholesale to end-user pools. - Both mobile data and Orange's fixed broadband ride this AS; the addressing does not visibly separate them.
Notable
- The registry keeps the company's history in plain sight. The large legacy blocks are named
RO-DIALOG-*after Dialog, the GSM brand of MobilRom, the company that became Orange România. Newer allocations are simplyRO-ORANGE. - Well over a thousand peers according to public peering data — Orange România peers aggressively rather than buying all its capacity, which is characteristic of a national incumbent-scale eyeball network.
- The AS is heavily NAT-ed relative to its subscriber base: an operator with millions of customers announcing a few hundred thousand addresses is doing carrier-grade NAT, so per-address user attribution is unreliable here.
Interesting
- Orange România's fixed-line arm arrived via the former Telekom Romania, and the two sides of the business were only brought fully under one brand in 2022. Some Romanian fixed broadband still originates from other ASNs, so this AS is not the whole of Orange's Romanian footprint.
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 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NetIX | Sofia, Bulgaria | 185.1.226.104 |
| InterLAN-IX | Bucharest, Romania | 86.104.125.128 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 36 prefixes · 227K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RO | Romania | 37 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8953- Registry name
- ASN-ORANGE-ROMANIA
- Registrant
- AS8953-MNT
- Abuse contact
- registry@orange.com
- Registered
- 2002-04-19
- Last changed
- 2026-10-06
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Orange Romania S.A
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-ORANGERO- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- http://www.orange.ro
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 66% valid · 21 valid, 11 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 28 authorising AS8953
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 32 of 32 announcements
- Route objects
- 42 naming AS8953
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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