Autonomous system
AS3584 PUBNIX2-ASN
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
PubNIX Inc.
hosting legacy
PUBNIX2-ASN belongs to PubNIX Inc., a long-established Canadian internet company operating out of the Montreal area (registered in Beaconsfield, Quebec).
What it's used for
- Colocation, web/email hosting, and virtual machines out of a downtown Montreal data centre.
- Subscriber access links (DSL and cable) for customers in Quebec and Ontario.
- Network consulting work — BGP, IPv6, load balancing, and data-centre infrastructure.
Notable
- A mixed hosting and access network: much of the space sits in front of servers and colocated customer equipment, with a smaller access-subscriber component alongside it.
- Small and independent. The address footprint is a few thousand IPv4 addresses, typical of a regional hosting provider rather than a large cloud.
Interesting
- PubNIX has been operating since the mid-1990s, from the era when a single small company could hold its own AS number and peer directly — hence a number this low for a business of this size.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS3584- Registry name
- PUBNIX2-ASN
- Registrant
- PubNIX, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@pubnix.net
- Registered
- 1994-05-11
- Last changed
- 1998-09-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 7% valid · 1 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS3584
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 14 of 14 announcements
- Route objects
- 19 naming AS3584
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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