Autonomous system
AS6450 PIXNET-AS - Providers Internet Exchange
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Providers Internet Exchange (PIXNET)
legacy
PIXNET-AS — Providers Internet Exchange, an ARIN registration from April 1996 listing a post-office box in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It is a survivor of the mid-1990s Philadelphia-area internet scene rather than an active, identifiable service today.
What it's used for
- Hard to say honestly. It announces four small legacy /24s from
198.186.190.0onward, a block whose ARIN record is registered to Prescient Software, Inc. — a different name again — and none of it carries public reverse DNS. - Its routing today comes from a single upstream, a Usenet service provider, so the address space is reachable but gives away nothing about its use.
Notable
- Despite the name, there is no evidence this operates as an internet exchange point in the modern sense. "Internet exchange" was used loosely in the 1990s for provider co-operatives and interconnect projects.
- The technical contacts on the original records are recognisable figures from the 1990s Philadelphia ISP world, which fits the era but does not tell you who runs the network now.
- Because the operator's current activity cannot be established from registry, routing, or DNS evidence, this network is deliberately left unclassified rather than forced into a category.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS30094 | Giganews, Inc. | 198 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-12, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6450- Registry name
- PIXNET-AS
- Registrant
- Providers Internet Exchange
- Abuse contact
- ahp@hilander.com
- Registered
- 1996-04-18
- Last changed
- 1996-04-18
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6450
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 21 naming AS6450
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: 453 networks and 1,848 prefixes, as published 2026-11-13. 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