Autonomous system
AS6501 SOUTHERNET
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
The Southern Company
enterprise legacy
SOUTHERNET is the corporate network of The Southern Company, one of the largest electric utility holding companies in the United States, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
What it's used for
- Internal enterprise and utility-operations connectivity for Southern Company and its operating subsidiaries, not a commercial ISP service.
- The announced space carries subsidiary netnames:
SCSNET1(Southern Company Services) andGPCINET(Georgia Power Company), which is the clearest confirmation that this is the utility group's own addressing.
Notable
- Around 100,000 IPv4 addresses across roughly two dozen prefixes. That is a large footprint for a corporate network, which is typical of a utility holding company spanning several state operating companies and a large field/metering estate.
- ARIN registered the ASN on 1996-05-09, part of a sequential run of genuine mid-1990s allocations in this range.
Interesting
- The technical and abuse contact is administered out of Birmingham, Alabama, reflecting the group's multi-state operating structure rather than a single Atlanta network.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 43 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6501- Registry name
- SOUTHERNET
- Registrant
- The Southern Company
- Abuse contact
- SoCoDNSAdmin@southernco.com
- Registered
- 1996-05-09
- Last changed
- 2019-04-11
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere