Autonomous system
AS9017 MDAM
Unclassified RIPE Educational/Research
Summary
Marcus van Dam
other legacy
MDAM is held by Marcus van Dam, an individual in the Netherlands (an active network engineer, m4rcu5 online), not a company.
What it's used for
A personal/hobbyist autonomous system. It announces a single 176.117.63.0/24 with one observed neighbour, the smallest possible operational footprint, so there is no honest provider bucket for it: it is one person routing a /24 for their own use.
Notable
No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled. The /24 was first seen in BGP in 2016, so despite the low AS number this is a modern registration to an individual rather than an early-internet institutional holder; the historical angle does not apply.
Interesting
Individually held ASNs like this are common among network engineers who want their own portable block and BGP presence; the low four-digit number reflects reissue, not age of use.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9017- Registry name
- MDAM
- Registrant
- ERROR404-MNT
- Abuse contact
- marcus@marcusvandam.nl
- Registered
- 2015-10-08
- Last changed
- 2025-07-09
- Status
- active
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Marcus van Dam
- Also known as
- Marcus van Dam's AS9017
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
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.
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere