Orange IP Ranges
Orange is the incumbent carrier in France, and RIPE registers its network as AS3215 to Orange S.A. Its broadband customers are still named in reverse DNS under wanadoo.fr, the consumer brand Orange retired two decades ago.
- Provider
- Orange
- Primary ASN
- AS3215
- Category
- ISP
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Announced IPv4 prefixes
- 917
- Registry
- RIPE
Known IP ranges
These prefixes are currently announced to the global routing table by AS3215 (AS3215 Orange S.A.). Prefix sets change over time - use WHOIS Lookup for the authoritative record on any specific address.
194.206.0.0/16
62.160.0.0/16
86.234.0.0/16
90.98.0.0/16
90.34.0.0/16
90.76.0.0/16
193.250.0.0/16
86.235.0.0/16
62.161.0.0/16
217.108.0.0/16
2a01:cb0c::/30
2a01:cb08::/30
2a01:cb10::/30 (IPv6)
What does an Orange IP mean in a privacy test?
An Orange address as your visible IP means the connection left over the French line with nothing tunnelling it. It is a longer-lived address than a German one: the RIPE NCC's renumbering research put Orange's cycle at roughly a week, so an Orange address recognises a household for longer than most European carriers' do - though still not indefinitely.
Where to get Orange's address list
Orange publishes no allowlist for its consumer network, so the RIPE database is the source. The aut-num for AS3215 gives the organisation as Orange S.A. at 44 Avenue de la Republique in Chatillon, with the object last changed in March 2025, and the prefixes above are the largest currently announced. The AS3215 page carries the registry record with the routing detail.
What the announcement list does not show is the assignment type. AS3215 puts over nine hundred IPv4 prefixes into the routing table, a large share of them plain /16s carved from older allocations - 194.206.0.0/16, 62.160.0.0/16, 86.234.0.0/16, 90.98.0.0/16 - and a /16 tells you nothing about whether the address inside it serves a Livebox or a business circuit. The RIPE inetnum object for the specific address is where that appears, which is the query worth making when the block alone is ambiguous.
Why an Orange address answers as wanadoo.fr
Wanadoo was France Telecom's consumer ISP brand, retired into Orange in the mid-2000s, and the reverse DNS was never renamed. 86.234.0.1 answers as lfbn-bor-1-641-1.w86-234.abo.wanadoo.fr: a line identifier, then w86-234 repeating the block the address sits in, then abo - which reads as abonne, subscriber - and the wanadoo.fr zone. A name in that zone is a residential Orange customer, whatever the brand on the bill says.
The renumbering interval is what makes this network different from its German neighbour in practice. The RIPE NCC's research on dynamic address changes measured Orange in France at roughly 168 hours between reassignments, against 24 for Deutsche Telekom. An Orange address is therefore a usefully stable handle within a week and a misleading one across months, and in neither case does it identify anybody - it identifies a line the operator happened to be lending that address to.
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Frequently asked questions
What IP ranges does Orange use?
Orange announces its French network under AS3215, which RIPE registers to Orange S.A. The largest blocks currently routed there are listed above, among them 194.206.0.0/16, 62.160.0.0/16 and 86.234.0.0/16. No allowlist is published, so the RIPE database and the routing table are the checkable sources.
Why does an Orange IP appear in my privacy test?
An Orange address as your visible IP means the connection left over the French line with nothing tunnelling it. It is a longer-lived address than a German one: the RIPE NCC's renumbering research put Orange's cycle at roughly a week, so an Orange address recognises a household for longer than most European carriers' do - though still not indefinitely.
Why does an Orange IP have a wanadoo.fr hostname?
Because the zone outlived the brand. Wanadoo was France Telecom's consumer ISP name, retired into Orange in the mid-2000s, and the reverse DNS kept it: 86.234.0.1 answers as lfbn-bor-1-641-1.w86-234.abo.wanadoo.fr. A name in that zone is a residential Orange line.
How often does an Orange IP address change?
Roughly weekly. The RIPE NCC's research into why dynamic addresses change measured Orange in France at about 168 hours between reassignments, which is one of the longer fixed cycles it found - Deutsche Telekom's, by comparison, is 24 hours.
Does Orange publish a list of its IP ranges?
No. The RIPE database is where the detail lives: the aut-num for AS3215 and the inetnum object covering the specific address, which is the query to make when a /16 on its own does not tell you whether an address serves a household or a business circuit.