Autonomous system
AS12200 RACKSPACE
Hosting ARIN Content
Summary
Rackspace Hosting
cloud hosting managed-hosting
A Rackspace Autonomous System. Rackspace is a long-standing managed-cloud and managed-hosting company (RACKSPACE) based in San Antonio, Texas, known for its "Fanatical Support" managed-services model.
What it's used for
- Managed dedicated and cloud hosting, multi-cloud management, and hosted applications for business customers.
Notable
- An IP here identifies Rackspace as the host; the workload behind it belongs to a Rackspace customer. Rackspace announces several ASNs across its regions.
Interesting
- Rackspace co-founded OpenStack with NASA in 2010, seeding one of the most widely used open-source cloud platforms.
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 14 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.116 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.236.151 |
| London Network Access Point | London, United Kingdom | 5.57.81.27 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.137.84 |
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.217 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.189 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.7 |
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 2001:504:1::a501:4492:1 |
Transit providers
28 upstream, 18 downstream and 88 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 6.93K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12200- Registry name
- RACKSPACE
- Registrant
- Rackspace Hosting
- Abuse contact
- abuse@rackspace.com
- Registered
- 2007-05-16
- Last changed
- 2013-04-09
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Rackspace
- Also known as
- 36248, 45187, 58683, 15395, 27357, 33070, 19994
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-RACKSPACE- Present at
- 15 exchanges
- Facilities
- 12 facilities
- Website
- http://www.rackspace.com
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
- 6% valid · 1 valid, 16 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS12200
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 65% registered · 11 of 17 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 253 naming AS12200
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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