Autonomous system
AS6503 Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V.
Unclassified LACNIC
Summary
Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V.
isp legacy
AS6503 is the main network of Axtel, a Mexican fixed-line telecommunications and IT services operator. It is an ARIN-era number now administered under LACNIC.
What it's used for
- Nationwide fixed connectivity across Mexico. The AS originates roughly 650 IPv4 prefixes totalling about 1.4 million addresses, drawn from Mexican LACNIC ranges.
- Reverse DNS is consistently under
static.axtel.netand is annotated with city codes such asmtyxl(Monterrey),gdljal(Guadalajara) andqroqro(Querétaro), alongside markers likeinfraestructura,reservadaandwimax-cpe.
Notable
- Axtel today positions itself around the enterprise and government segments, combining its fibre backbone with data-centre and managed-IT services, having de-emphasised traditional mass-market consumer fixed-line operations. The rDNS backs this up: the space reads as static customer assignments and infrastructure rather than large dynamic residential pools.
- Residual fixed-wireless CPE naming (
wimax-cpe-…) still appears in the address space, a fossil of Axtel's earlier access technology.
Interesting
- Because Axtel's self-description (B2B/IT provider) and its inventory (a large national access network) pull in different directions, this AS is easy to mislabel as a consumer ISP. The static-assignment naming is the honest signal.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MEX-IX McAllen | McAllen, United States | 206.71.142.12 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 806 prefixes · 1.25M addresses IPv6 174 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MX | Mexico | 980 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- LACNIC
- Registered
- 1996-05-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 38% valid · 293 valid, 484 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 31 authorising AS6503
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.7% registered · 775 of 777 announcements
- Route objects
- 2,528 naming AS6503
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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