AS695

AS695 is a dormant legacy Autonomous System registered to SWITCH, the Swiss national research-and-education network, that currently announces zero IPv4 or IPv6 prefixes and carries no live routing footprint.

The ASN is registered with RIPE NCC as the authoritative RIR, under the name SWITCH-TEST1, organization handle ORG-SG2-RIPE ("The Swiss Education and Research Network," Zurich). RIPE RDAP's autnum top-level events give an allocation (registered) date of 2002-09-20 and a last-changed date of 2021-10-19. The RIPE database marks the record status as LEGACY. The IANA registry block (1-1876) carries a historical note "Assigned by ARIN," but this describes the original IANA-to-RIR delegation path, not the current authoritative registry — RIPEstat's abuse-contact-finder independently confirms RIPE as authoritative for AS695 today.

SWITCH is a non-profit foundation established in 1987 by the Swiss Confederation and the university cantons, operating Switzerland's academic and research network. Critically, AS695 is not SWITCH's operational ASN: SWITCH's live production peering, PeeringDB profile, and published peering policy all belong to a separate ASN, AS559. AS695 appears to be a legacy/test allocation that was never brought into live service, or was retired from it.

Every routing source consulted agrees AS695 is unrouted: RIPEstat's as-overview, announced-prefixes, and routing-status endpoints all show zero announced prefixes and zero RIS peer visibility (0 of 324 IPv4 peers, 0 of 321 IPv6 peers), corroborated independently by bgp.he.net and bgp.tools. CAIDA AS Rank places it at rank 79,459 with a customer cone limited to itself (0 prefixes, 0 addresses) and zero AS-degree relationships (no upstreams, peers, or customers).

Exposure

None assessable — AS695 announces no address space, so there is no live attack surface, hijackable prefix, or RPKI posture to validate; RIPEstat's rpki-validation check was skipped for lack of an announced prefix.

Abuse signal

No public abuse, spam, malware, or BGP-incident reporting found for AS695 specifically; a Spamhaus ASN-lookup returned HTTP 404 (inconclusive rather than a confirmed clean record), and NANOG/seclists archive searches surfaced no AS695-specific hijack or route-leak threads.

Operator standing

SWITCH is a long-established, professionally run R&E operator with active NANOG and SwiNOG community presence and documented peering practice under its live ASN, AS559 — no negative reputation signal attaches to the organization.

Abuse contact

abuse@switch.ch (RIPE abuse-c handle AR31930-RIPE), reachable should the dormant allocation ever be brought back into service.

Operator

SWITCH (Swiss Education and Research Network), a non-profit foundation est. 1987, Zurich, Switzerland [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/695, https://www.switch.ch/about/

Country / RIR

CH, RIPE NCC (authoritative; historical IANA block note says "Assigned by ARIN" but is not current) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: ripe), https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/695

Allocated

2002-09-20 (RIPE RDAP autnum top-level "registered" event — a first-party RIR registry fact); last changed 2021-10-19 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/695

Org status

active independent non-profit foundation, founded 1987 by the Swiss Confederation and university cantons [Confirmed] — https://www.switch.ch/about/

Contacts

abuse@switch.ch (RIPE abuse-c AR31930-RIPE); SWITCH Network Operation Center (SNOC1-RIPE) [Confirmed] — RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder, https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/695

Security/abuse context (neutral, dated)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-07-23; Spamhaus ASN lookup returned 404 (inconclusive); no NANOG/seclists AS695-specific incident threads

Network & routing

Network type

national research and education network (REN); AS695 itself is a legacy/test allocation, not SWITCH's live operational ASN [Confirmed] — https://www.switch.ch/about/, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/559

Related ASN

SWITCH's active production/peering ASN is AS559 (separate PeeringDB entry and peering policy); do not attribute AS559's peering activity to AS695 [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS695, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/559, https://network.switch.ch/pub/peering-policy/

Size / routing

dormant — 0 IPv4 and 0 IPv6 prefixes announced; 0 of 324 RIS peers see it on v4, 0 of 321 on v6; 0 observed neighbours [Confirmed] — RIPEstat routing-status/announced-prefixes, https://bgp.he.net/AS695, https://bgp.tools/as/695

CAIDA AS rank

79,459; customer cone singleton (1 ASN, 0 prefixes, 0 addresses); AS-degree total 0 (customer 0, peer 0, provider 0) [Confirmed] — CAIDA ASRank

RPKI

not assessable — no announced prefixes, so no ROAs to validate [Confirmed] — RIPEstat rpki-validation (skipped, no prefix supplied)

Registration status

RIPE database status LEGACY, org handle ORG-SG2-RIPE [Confirmed] — https://rdap.db.ripe.net/autnum/695, https://bgp.he.net/AS695

Analyst note

dormant legacy/test ASN registered to a well-regarded R&E operator; live routing and peering activity attach to the operator's separate ASN, AS559, not to AS695.