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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 2001:de8:6:1::714:1 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS714 | Apple Inc. | 4,701 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-31, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 29 prefixes · 22.27K addresses IPv6 40 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 69 |
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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 100 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6185
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 82% registered · 82 of 100 announcements 4 other origin
- Route objects
- 130 naming AS6185
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: 447 networks and 1,845 prefixes, as published 2026-10-31. 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