Autonomous system
AS9153 BURSTFIRE-EU Burstfire Networks Ltd
Unclassified RIPE NSP
Summary
Burstfire Networks Ltd
transit hosting isp legacy
BURSTFIRE-EU is Burstfire Networks Ltd, an internet provider incorporated in 1999 and based in London's Docklands, selling multihomed IP transit, connectivity, colocation and hosting to SMBs and other operators.
What it's used for
The AS announces three IPv4 blocks (~25k addresses: 46.248.96.0/19, 82.136.0.0/18, 195.22.128.0/23) plus IPv6, and shows ~86 observed neighbours. Sampled reverse DNS is router/backbone naming (gw.82.vlt.burstfire.net, cr0.vlt.burstfire.net), consistent with a transit and hosting carrier rather than a subscriber-access network.
What it's used for
Notable
- The neighbour count (86) well exceeds what a pure hosting shop needs; Burstfire advertises carrier-grade multihomed IP transit to telecom operators, ISPs and content players, which is the dominant role here.
- Reverse DNS names its own network kit, not customer pools, so the announced space reads as backbone/infrastructure plus hosting.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.71 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.152 |
Transit providers
20 upstream, 2 downstream and 36 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 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 20.22K addresses IPv6 16 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 30 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9153- Registry name
- BURSTFIRE-EU
- Registrant
- BURSTFIRE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@burstfire.net
- Registered
- 2002-04-13
- Last changed
- 2018-09-04
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Burstfire Networks Ltd
- Also known as
- Burstfire, Kewlio
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Europe
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
RIPE::AS-BURSTFIRE- Present at
- 3 exchanges
- Facilities
- 5 facilities
- Website
- http://www.burstfire.net
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
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS9153
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS9153
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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