Autonomous system
AS22989 FREEASINFREEDOM
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Free Software Foundation
nonprofit content fsf us
FREEASINFREEDOM is operated by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
What it's used for
- The address space carries infrastructure for the Free Software Foundation, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
cas-stg0.fsf.org,matomo1p.fsf.org, andstreamserver1p.fsf.org. - The AS announces 256 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix, with only 2 observed neighbours, indicating a small-scale content or internal network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant for the announced prefix
209.51.188.0/24is Hurricane Electric LLC, while the AS holder is the Free Software Foundation, suggesting the address space is leased or allocated by Hurricane Electric. - The inventory consists of a single IPv4 prefix and one IPv6 prefix, representing a compact and focused address estate.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Internet Exchange | Boston, United States | 206.53.143.61 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS22989- Registry name
- FREEASINFREEDOM
- Registrant
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- netadmin@gnu.org
- Registered
- 2006-10-11
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS22989
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS22989
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 1,782 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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