Autonomous system
AS6185 APPLE-AUSTIN
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Apple Inc.
enterprise legacy
APPLE-AUSTIN is one of Apple Inc.'s autonomous systems, named for the company's Austin, Texas campus. It is registered to Apple under a legacy ARIN organisation handle.
What it's used for
- Apple's own network: content-edge and service delivery alongside corporate infrastructure, announcing prefixes drawn from Apple's
17.0.0.0/8space plus IPv6 in several regions. - Roughly 22k IPv4 addresses across a wide spread of prefixes, many of them small edge announcements placed close to users.
Notable
- An enterprise AS, not a commercial hosting network. Apple builds and runs this capacity for its own products; none of it is sold as compute or transit.
- ARIN's registration for the ASN dates to 1995, and Apple holds one of the last remaining single-company Class A allocations,
17.0.0.0/8, which most of this AS's IPv4 comes from.
Interesting
- Apple is one of a small handful of organisations that still holds an entire /8 and actually uses it. Announcing pieces of it from a geographically named AS is how that address space gets spread across the company's edge footprint.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 66 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6185- Registry name
- APPLE-AUSTIN
- Registrant
- Apple Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@apple.com
- Registered
- 1995-12-21
- Last changed
- 2012-04-02
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere