Autonomous system
AS12233 CACHE-POWERED-BY-NINJA-IX
Hosting ARIN Content
Summary
Ninja-IX
cdn ixp legacy
A US network running content caches, operated by the company behind the Ninja-IX exchange.
What it's used for
- Content caching. 1,024 addresses over three prefixes, one IPv6
/48, five observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle registered with ARIN is
CACHE-POWERED-BY-NINJA-IX, which is marketing copy in a field meant for an identifier. - Two of the three blocks carry the netname
NINJA-CACHE; the third isNINJA-PUBLIC-3. - The one sampled reverse name,
lb-rtr1-phx-caching.nix-ops.net, spells out its own job: load balancer, router 1, Phoenix, caching.
Interesting
- An exchange operator running caches is a specific business model. Content providers put caching nodes close to eyeballs; a small exchange that can host those nodes and hand the traffic to every member network on site becomes worth joining for reasons that have nothing to do with peering. The cache is the product and the exchange is the distribution.
- Naming things is where operators reveal how they think.
nix-ops.netfor the infrastructure domain,NINJA-CACHEin the registry, and a hostname that reads like a diagram — this is a network built by people who expect to be reading their own reverse DNS at three in the morning.
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 5 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Ninja-IX Phoenix | Phoenix, United States | 206.41.105.8 |
| Ninja-IX Las Vegas | Las Vegas, United States | 206.71.8.8 |
| Ninja-IX Richmond | Richmond, United States | 206.71.9.8 |
| Ninja-IX Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.71.139.8 |
| Ninja-IX Bay Area | Fremont, United States | 149.112.34.8 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12233- Registry name
- CACHE-POWERED-BY-NINJA-IX
- Registrant
- Ninja-IX Corporation
- Abuse contact
- noc@phoenix-ix.net
- Registered
- 2021-09-09
- Last changed
- 2024-09-06
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Ninja-Cache
- Network type
- Content
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-NINJA-CACHE- Present at
- 7 exchanges
- Facilities
- 9 facilities
- Website
- http://ninja-ix.net
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
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS12233
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS12233
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-22. 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