Autonomous system
AS6407 PRIMUS-AS6407
Residential ARIN NSP
Summary
Primus Telecommunications Canada
isp legacy
PRIMUS-AS6407 is Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., a long-running Canadian consumer and small-business telecom brand. Primus was acquired by Distributel in 2021, and Distributel in turn was bought by Bell Canada, so the brand now sits inside the Bell group while continuing to operate as a separate retail provider.
What it's used for
- Residential internet, home phone and TV sold across Canada, largely over wholesale access to incumbent cable and telephone networks.
- Small-business voice and data services.
- Announces on the order of 260 thousand IPv4 addresses spread across several hundred mostly-
/24prefixes.
Notable
This is eyeball space. Reverse DNS is unambiguous — hostnames under primus.ca carry city labels such as tor and ottawa, including old dialin- naming that survives from the dial-up era — so addresses here front Canadian households, not servers. The many small prefixes reflect a reseller/CLEC that assembled its footprint over years of allocations rather than receiving one large block.
Interesting
Primus is a survivor of the Canadian independent-ISP consolidation: an early competitive carrier that outlasted most of its peers, only to end up owned by the incumbent it once competed with. The AS number, registered in 2000, has stayed with the network through every change of owner.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York International Internet Exchange | New York, United States | 198.32.160.89 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 2 downstream and 3 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS11814 | Distributel Communications Limited | 19,757 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 183 prefixes · 263K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 183 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6407- Registry name
- PRIMUS-AS6407
- Registrant
- Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@primus.ca
- Registered
- 2000-03-31
- Last changed
- 2025-12-01
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Restrictive
- IRR as-set
AS-PRIMUS- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- http://www.primus.ca
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 68% valid · 251 valid, 116 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 49 authorising AS6407
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 361 of 367 announcements 3 other origin
- Route objects
- 309 naming AS6407
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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