Autonomous system
AS10695 WAL-MART - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Walmart Inc. (Wal-Mart Stores)
enterprise legacy
WAL-MART is Walmart's own autonomous system, and it is one of the largest purely private enterprise networks on the internet. RIS observes 56 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 1,511,680 addresses — the great majority of them full /16s — with no IPv6 and only 4 BGP neighbours.
What it's used for
This is corporate and retail-estate networking at continental scale. The announced blocks are consecutive /16s out of 156.84.0.0–156.95.0.0 and 161.164.0.0–161.177.0.0, an unusually clean, contiguous holding that reflects allocations made directly to a very large organisation rather than assembled from scraps. Every address sampled in reverse DNS answers with the bare name walmart.com, a blanket first-party PTR applied across the estate. Space of this shape and size supports stores, distribution centers, point-of-sale systems, back-office sites and internal services — tens of thousands of locations, each needing routable addressing.
Notable
The ratio here is the story. About 1.5 million addresses against just 4 observed BGP neighbours: enormous address consumption, almost no interconnection. That is the definitive enterprise signature, and the exact inverse of a carrier, which peers with hundreds of networks while announcing far less space. Walmart is not selling connectivity to anyone; it is consuming it from a small number of upstreams.
Interesting
The public-facing walmart.com storefront is not what fills this AS. Consumer web traffic is served through CDNs and cloud platforms; this network is the private plumbing behind the world's largest retailer.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 95 prefixes · 1.50M addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 95 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS10695- Registry name
- WAL-MART
- Registrant
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- dns@wal-mart.com
- Registered
- 1997-10-29
- Last changed
- 2025-07-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 55 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS10695
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 53 of 55 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 61 naming AS10695
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-01. 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