Autonomous system
AS6379 ALINK
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
A-Link Network Services
isp legacy
ALINK is A-Link Network Services, Inc., a communications service provider in the San Jose / Sunnyvale area of California's Silicon Valley. It has held this AS number since 1996.
What it's used for
- Business internet access and managed voice/data services for small and mid-sized companies in the Bay Area.
- Connectivity for commercial office buildings and multi-tenant properties, plus public hotspots.
- Announces a couple of dozen mostly
/24prefixes drawn from207.135.xand216.39.x, plus IPv6.
Notable
The customer base is businesses and buildings, not households. That shows in the shape of the network: many small prefixes handed to individual customers and tenant sites, rather than large contiguous consumer pools with dsl- or cgn- style reverse DNS.
A small regional provider holding a sub-6500 AS number is a marker of the mid-1990s, when the Bay Area produced a large crop of independent ISPs; A-Link is one of the few from that cohort still operating under its own name.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange | San Francisco, United States | 206.197.187.108 |
Transit providers
8 upstream, 0 downstream and 9 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 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 15 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 16 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6379- Registry name
- ALINK
- Registrant
- A-Link Network Services, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- support@globalvad.com
- Registered
- 1996-03-27
- Last changed
- 1996-03-27
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 5% valid · 1 valid, 20 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS6379
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 95% registered · 20 of 21 announcements
- Route objects
- 29 naming AS6379
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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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