Autonomous system
AS14609 EQUINIX-CORP-NETWORK
Unclassified ARIN Enterprise
Summary
Equinix, Inc.
hosting enterprise infrastructure
One of its hosts is called somehost, and one of its registry records says SANDBOX.
What it's used for
- A data centre operator's corporate network, separate from the exchange fabric it runs. 6,656 addresses across 16 IPv4 prefixes, with 23 observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Netnames run
EQUINIX-EDMA-CORP-1throughEQUINIX-EDMA-CORP-11, plusEQUINIX-EDMA-CHI,EQUINIX-EDMA-SV-2andEQUINIX-IBX-SANDBOX-1, with operations-centre and response-centre contacts on several. - Five of eighteen sampled addresses returned names:
br1.sv3.equinix.net,dhcp-126.ch1.equinix.net,ch3lxmailin01.equinix.com,somehost-126.ch3.equinix.netandasa.la3.corp.equinix.com.
Interesting
somehostis a placeholder that somebody typed while testing a naming script and never went back to change. It has been answering reverse lookups from a production block ever since, which is how most placeholders end their lives.- The other four names are dense: each carries a campus code, and the remaining letters give away a border router, a dynamically assigned address, an inbound mail server on a particular operating system, and a firewall named after its model. Anyone mapping this company's internal estate can start from DNS.
- A netname containing
SANDBOXmarks a block set aside for experiments. It is still announced to the internet, so the sandbox has walls made of naming convention.
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 7 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.239.254 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.126 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.126 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) | San Jose, United States | 206.223.116.253 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange New York | New York, United States | 198.32.118.124 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Los Angeles | Los Angeles, United States | 206.223.123.126 |
| Equinix Los Angeles IBX | Los Angeles, United States | 206.223.123.126 |
Transit providers
9 upstream, 0 downstream and 9 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 16 prefixes · 6.66K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS14609- Registry name
- EQUINIX-CORP-NETWORK
- Registrant
- Equinix, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@equinix.com
- Registered
- 2000-01-12
- Last changed
- 2021-01-14
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Equinix Corpnet - NAMER
- Network type
- Enterprise
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- No
- Present at
- 6 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.equinix.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
- 5% valid · 1 valid, 21 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS14609
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 22 of 22 announcements
- Route objects
- 33 naming AS14609
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: 431 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