Autonomous system
AS6423 DF-PTL2-3
Hosting ARIN Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Digital Fortress
hosting legacy
Digital Fortress, a carrier-neutral colocation and data centre operator based in Seattle, Washington (DF-PTL2-3).
What it's used for
- Colocation, wholesale data centre, and network services for enterprise customers. The AS originates Digital Fortress's own
69.30.0.0/18and related IPv6 space. - Address space here is customer-facing hosting and colocation, not consumer broadband.
Notable
- Digital Fortress dates to 1994 and runs facilities in the Seattle area (downtown and Tukwila), plus Oregon, Illinois, and New Jersey. Its ARIN registrant address is the Tukwila site.
- The ASN record itself dates to April 1996, part of a sequential run of ARIN assignments in the mid-6400s.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Access Exchange | Portland, United States | 198.32.195.30 |
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 21 prefixes · 26.62K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6423- Registry name
- DF-PTL2-3
- Registrant
- Digital Fortress
- Abuse contact
- support@digitalfortress.io
- Registered
- 1996-04-09
- Last changed
- 2022-11-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Digital Fortress - AS6423
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- North America
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-6423- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 8 facilities
- Website
- https://digital-fortress.com/
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
- 100% valid · 11 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS6423
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 11 of 11 announcements
- Route objects
- 18 naming AS6423
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: 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