Autonomous system
AS8956 Flens-net Stadt Flensburg
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Stadt Flensburg
government municipal legacy
Registered as Flens-net with the RIR remark "germany", this AS belongs to Stadt Flensburg — the city administration of Flensburg, on Germany's Baltic coast at the Danish border. The contacts sit at Rathausplatz 1, the city hall.
What it's used for
- The municipal government's own network. It announces a single provider-independent
/24, netnameFLENSBURG, plus one IPv6/48— 256 IPv4 addresses in total, with two BGP neighbours and no downstream customers. - No rDNS is delegated on the sampled space, which is normal for a small council block that fronts a handful of services and keeps the rest internal.
Notable
- This is a local government network, not an ISP and not an enterprise. Provider-independent space plus a low-numbered AS is a common shape for German municipalities, which took address space early and have kept it multi-homed ever since.
- The address space belongs to the city administration and should be attributed to it, not to whichever regional carrier happens to be upstream on any given day. That independence from a single carrier is the whole reason a council of this size runs its own AS.
Interesting
- The registry "name" here is a good illustration of how little the handle carries:
Flens-netplus a baregermanyremark is all the object says about itself. The identity comes from the organisation record and the city-hall street address, not the name.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-10, 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 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| DE | Germany | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8956- Registry name
- Flens-net
- Registrant
- FLENS-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@flensburg.de
- Registered
- 2001-11-28
- Last changed
- 2018-10-11
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS8956
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS8956
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: 454 networks and 1,847 prefixes, as published 2026-11-11. 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