AS208779 SOFTETHER Davide Beatrici

IPv6 prefix announced, but nothing inside is responding yet. AS208779 announces 2 IPv6 prefix(es) to the global routing table - that’s the part that BGP and our route-server scrape confirm. But our active discovery (curated hostnames, holder-derived domains, authoritative DNS NS/SOA/MX, certificate-transparency hostnames, RIPE Atlas, RDAP, IPv6 Hitlist) found no ICMPv6-responsive host inside the prefix on either vantage, and a yarrp pass against random addresses inside the prefix produced zero in-prefix hops (no router on the path through the AS replied with Time-Exceeded for any random target). That combination usually means the announcement is configured but the addresses inside aren’t in active use yet. The BGP route is there; the operational deployment is still ahead.

AS overview

Test target: 2a0e:97c0:72b::1 · (no live host found) · address space: unknown · prefixes announced: 2

prefix(es): 2a0e:97c0:72b::/48, 2a0e:97c0:72a::/48

RPKI & ASPA

0 of 2 prefix(es) covered by a valid ROA, 2 not-found.

Prefix	RPKI state	Reason	Covering VRP(s)
`2a0e:97c0:72b::/48`	- not-found	no covering VRP
`2a0e:97c0:72a::/48`	- not-found	no covering VRP

Random-IP probe (yarrp) into the AS' prefixes

We probed 30 arbitrary IPv6 address(es) inside AS208779's announced prefix(es). No router inside the prefix responded. The deepest visible hop was fd00:cafe:cfcf:cfcf::2 at hop 8 - that router does not answer ICMPv6 Echo. This is not in AS208779's announced prefix; operationally it's the AS-edge / peering interface (often on an IXP peering address or an upstream's /127 link). The traceroute boundary is the AS edge: ICMPv6 Time-Exceeded responses from anything inside this AS are filtered.

ICMPv6 Type 2 (Packet Too Big) acceptance - active test

Type 2 active test inconclusive: no Echo Reply to 1300-byte probe.
method: ICMPv6 Echo + forged PTB, tested 2026-05-25T12:36:57Z

Failure detail — what to grep in your logs

vantage	our source	your target	method	result	tested (UTC)
go6lab	`2a00:8642:42::75`	`2a0e:97c0:72b::1`	`icmp6-echo`	no_echo	2026-05-25T12:36:57Z
karsolink	`2a12:d8c0:105a:9001::a154`	`2a0e:97c0:72b::1`	`icmp6-echo`	no_echo	2026-05-25T12:48:04Z
odin	`2607:fae0:a000::42`	`2a0e:97c0:72b::1`	`icmp6-echo`	no_echo	2026-05-25T12:36:30Z

Attempt log (go6lab):

icmp6-echo → no_echo: no Echo Reply to 1300-byte probe
dns-tcp → no_tcp: connect failed: timed out
tls → no_tcp: TLS connect failed
http → no_tcp: tcp/80 not open

Attempt log (karsolink):

icmp6-echo → no_echo: no Echo Reply to 1300-byte probe
dns-tcp → no_tcp: connect failed: timed out
tls → no_tcp: TLS connect failed
http → no_tcp: tcp/80 not open

Attempt log (odin):

icmp6-echo → no_echo: no Echo Reply to 1300-byte probe
dns-tcp → no_tcp: connect failed: timed out
tls → no_tcp: TLS connect failed
http → no_tcp: tcp/80 not open

To match the corresponding ICMPv6 packet on your side (host firewall, AS edge, or transit tap), look for our PTBs around the timestamps above:

sudo tcpdump -i any -n -e 'icmp6 and ip6[40] = 2 and (src host 2607:fae0:a000::42 or src host 2a00:8642:42::75 or src host 2a12:d8c0:105a:9001::a154)'

If you see our PTBs arriving but the destination's TCP/Echo flow does not shrink, the drop is in the destination kernel (cause 3 below). If you don't see them at all, drop is upstream of you (cause 2). If you only see them from one of our two source IPs, the drop is path-asymmetric — one transit on the asymmetric route is filtering, the other is not.

From NL host (go6lab) transit only unreachable

filter likely at: past AS9002 (RETN-AS) · min PMTU on path: 1500

0/4

Echo small (56B) -

0/4

Echo 1500B (DF) -

Type 1 dest-unreach

TCP responds on

Path (traceroute + mtr + PTR)

#	IP / PTR	RTT	mtr loss	AS	AS holder
1	2a00:8642:42::3	1.3ms	0%	AS203993	STEFFANN-DC-AS - S.J.M. Steffann, NL
2	gw.friends.steffann.nl 2a00:8642:1000:f000::1	2.2ms	0%*	AS203993	STEFFANN-DC-AS - S.J.M. Steffann, NL
3	2a00:1ca8:1::194	2.9ms	20%	AS50673	Serverius-as - Serverius Holding B.V., NL
4	2a03:3f40::10:33	5.0ms	0%	AS50673	Serverius-as - Serverius Holding B.V., NL
5	2a02:2d8:1:a001:232a	5.4ms	0%	-
6	RT.MIX.MIL.IT.retn.net 2a02:2d8::57f5:e080	19.3ms	0%	AS9002	RETN-AS - RETN Limited, GB
7	GW-AS47152.retn.net 2a02:2d8:1:b832:232a::1	22.8ms	0%	AS9002	RETN-AS - RETN Limited, GB
8	*	-	-	-
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24	*	-	-	-

Rate-limited ICMPv6: hop 3 (loss between 5% and 95% across mtr cycles - the router replies but only sometimes).

tracepath -6

 1?: [LOCALHOST]                        0.043ms pmtu 1500
 1:  2a00:8642:42::3                                       1.916ms 
 1:  2a00:8642:42::3                                       1.648ms 
 2:  no reply
 3:  2a00:1ca8:1::194                                      3.381ms 
 4:  2a03:3f40::10:33                                      5.984ms 
 5:  ae1-499.RT.SRV.DRO.NL.retn.net                        4.611ms 
 6:  RT.MIX.MIL.IT.retn.net                               18.992ms 
 7:  GW-AS47152.retn.net                                  23.670ms asymm 11 
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     Too many hops: pmtu 1500
     Resume: pmtu 1500

From ITA host (Karsolink) transit only unreachable

filter likely at: past AS204471 (KARSOLINK) · min PMTU on path: 1500

0/4

Echo small (56B) -

0/4

Echo 1500B (DF) -

Type 1 dest-unreach

TCP responds on

Path (traceroute + mtr + PTR)

#	IP / PTR	RTT	mtr loss	AS	AS holder
1	karsolink-01.net.karsolink.com 2a12:d8c0:105a:9001::1	0.4ms	0%*	AS204471	KARSOLINK - 2S Computers SRL, IT
2	2a12:d8c0:109f:121::a1	0.4ms	0%*	AS204471	KARSOLINK - 2S Computers SRL, IT
3	2a12:d8c0:101f:103::1	8.5ms	10%	AS204471	KARSOLINK - 2S Computers SRL, IT
4	*	-	-	-
5	*	-	-	-
6	*	-	-	-
7	*	-	-	-
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22	*	-	-	-
23	*	-	-	-
24	*	-	-	-

Rate-limited ICMPv6: hop 3 (loss between 5% and 95% across mtr cycles - the router replies but only sometimes).

tracepath -6

 1?: [LOCALHOST]                        0.029ms pmtu 1500
 1:  no reply
 2:  2a12:d8c0:109f:121::a1                                0.878ms 
 3:  2a12:d8c0:101f:103::1                                 9.007ms 
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     Too many hops: pmtu 1500
     Resume: pmtu 1500

From SLO host (6connect) transit only unreachable

filter likely at: past AS9002 (RETN-AS) · min PMTU on path: 1500

0/4

Echo small (56B) -

0/4

Echo 1500B (DF) -

Type 1 dest-unreach

TCP responds on

Path (traceroute + mtr + PTR)

#	IP / PTR	RTT	mtr loss	AS	AS holder
1	fw1-lju.6connect.com 2607:fae0:a000::2	0.4ms	0%*	AS8038	6CONNECT - 6connect, Inc., US
2	*	-	-	-
3	2a00:ee1:800:9::1	2.1ms	0%	AS5603	SIOL-NET - Telekom Slovenije, d.d., SI
4	2a00:ee0:1:15::2	1.2ms	0%	AS5603	SIOL-NET - Telekom Slovenije, d.d., SI
5	de-cix1.rt.act.fkt.de.retn.net 2001:7f8::232a:0:1	14.3ms	10%	-	NA
6	RT.MIX.MIL.IT.retn.net 2a02:2d8::57f5:e080	15.6ms	0%	AS9002	RETN-AS - RETN Limited, GB
7	GW-AS47152.retn.net 2a02:2d8:1:b832:232a::1	15.6ms	0%	AS9002	RETN-AS - RETN Limited, GB
8	*	-	-	-
9	*	-	-	-
10	*	-	-	-
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22	*	-	-	-
23	*	-	-	-
24	*	-	-	-

Rate-limited ICMPv6: hop 5 (loss between 5% and 95% across mtr cycles - the router replies but only sometimes).

tracepath -6

 1?: [LOCALHOST]                        0.029ms pmtu 1500
 1:  fw1-lju.6connect.com                                  0.393ms 
 1:  fw1-lju.6connect.com                                  0.566ms 
 2:  no reply
 3:  2a00:ee1:800:9::1                                     1.664ms 
 4:  2a00:ee0:1:10::2                                      1.098ms asymm  3 
 5:  de-cix1.rt.act.fkt.de.retn.net                       14.253ms asymm  9 
 6:  RT.MIX.MIL.IT.retn.net                               16.515ms asymm  9 
 7:  GW-AS47152.retn.net                                  16.084ms asymm  8 
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     Too many hops: pmtu 1500
     Resume: pmtu 1500