Autonomous system
AS14086 QIX-YUL-SERVICES
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
CANIX Solutions & Services
infrastructure measurement telecom
An internet exchange filed under three names at once, with an airport code standing in for the city.
What it's used for
- Services attached to a regional internet exchange. 512 IPv4 addresses across two prefixes, one IPv6 prefix, and seven observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The registry holder names the city, the AS handle uses the city's airport code and a different brand, and the netname
CANIX-YUL-SERVICEScombines the first brand with the airport code. 206.126.112.0/24is registered to the exchange operator;38.129.1.0/24carriesCOGENT-Aand belongs to a carrier.- The IPv6 announcement is
2620:1f:4000::/48. - One sampled address answers as
net.pch.qix.ca, naming an organisation that runs infrastructure at exchanges worldwide.
Interesting
- Airport codes are the standard shorthand for naming network sites, because every city already has one and nobody argues about it. Here it appears in two fields and the city's actual name in a third, which is three ways of saying the same place.
- The one published hostname points at the organisation that operates route collectors and DNS infrastructure at exchange points, so what answers there is measurement equipment rather than a service of the exchange itself.
- Seven neighbours over a small footprint is the exchange signature: many networks meeting, little address space needed to do it.
- Two brands in the records, one older than the other, mark an exchange that changed operator or name and kept both identities in the registry.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| CANIX Internet Exchange - Montreal | Montreal, Canada | 198.179.18.105 |
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 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14086- Registry name
- CANIX-MONTREAL-SERVICES
- Registrant
- CANIX Solutions & Services
- Abuse contact
- noc@canix.ca
- Registered
- 2014-04-07
- Last changed
- 2025-10-20
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS14086
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS14086
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: 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