Autonomous system
AS12243 WADDELL
Unclassified ARIN NSP
Summary
Waddell Solutions Group
isp hosting
A small provider announcing more IPv6 prefixes than it has IPv4 addresses to spare.
What it's used for
- Provider and hosting connectivity. 2,048 addresses in seven IPv4 prefixes, eighteen IPv6 prefixes, and eleven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- Three of the seven IPv4 blocks are netname
COGENT-A, registered to Cogent Communications rather than to the announcing company. - The company's own netnames say what the space is for:
WSG-PROVIDER-BLK1,WSG-ISP-64andWSG-46. - The IPv6 side is
2606:1040::/36announced together with a staircase of children — a/48, another/48, then/47,/46,/45,/44,/43,/42,/41and on.
Interesting
- Seven IPv4 prefixes averaging under 300 addresses each is what building a network after exhaustion looks like. Nobody is allocated a contiguous block any more; you take a
/24here, a/24from your transit provider there, and the routing table records every one of them. - The IPv6 announcements outnumber the IPv4 ones more than two to one. There is no shortage driving that, so it is structure showing through — each doubling step is a boundary somebody drew inside the network and then advertised outward.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 149.112.11.27 |
| United IX Chicago | Chicago, United States | 206.41.110.78 |
| Ohio IX | Columbus, United States | 206.53.204.40 |
| FD-IX - Indianapolis | Indianapolis, United States | 206.53.139.61 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 1 downstream and 14 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 18 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 25 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS12243- Registry name
- WADDELL
- Registrant
- Waddell Solutions Group LLC
- Abuse contact
- noc@waddellsolutions.com
- Registered
- 2014-02-24
- Last changed
- 2014-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Waddell Solutions Group LLC
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
RADB::AS-WADDELL- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- http://www.waddellsolutions.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
- 70% valid · 7 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS12243
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS12243
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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