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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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS7018 | AT&T Enterprises, LLC | 1,521 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 43 prefixes · 98.30K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| 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
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 26 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6501
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 26 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS6501
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 2026-10-20. 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