Autonomous system
AS45187 RACKSPACE-AP Rackspace IT Hosting AS IT Hosting Provider Hong Kong
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Rackspace (Hong Kong)
cloud managed-hosting hosting
Rackspace's Hong Kong regional network. Rackspace (HQ in San Antonio, Texas) is a long-running managed-hosting and multicloud provider.
What it's used for
- Managed hosting, dedicated servers, and cloud services for Rackspace customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Notable
- An IP here identifies Rackspace as the host, not the customer running the workload.
- Rackspace operates many regional ASNs worldwide (US, UK, APAC); this is its Hong Kong presence.
Interesting
- Rackspace built its brand on "Fanatical Support" managed hosting before pivoting toward managing workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Internet Exchange | Hong Kong, China | 123.255.90.101 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 2001:de8:7::4:5187:2 |
Transit providers
10 upstream, 1 downstream and 19 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 66.82K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 13 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS45187- Registry name
- RACKSPACE-AP
- Registrant
- Rackspace.com Hong Kong Limited
- Abuse contact
- hostmaster@rackspace.com
- Registered
- 2014-12-18
- Last changed
- 2020-07-14
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 15 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS45187
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 14 of 15 announcements
- Route objects
- 30 naming AS45187
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: 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