Autonomous system
AS6596 ASN-BUNGI
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Bungi Communications
transit legacy
The network of Bungi Communications, a small San Francisco Bay Area network operator registered under the handle ASN-BUNGI. Bungi sells connectivity to other ISPs, web hosting companies, and small and mid-sized businesses rather than to consumers.
What it's used for
- IP transit and business connectivity from points of presence in the Bay Area. Reverse DNS on its space resolves to router names such as
gateway.sjc.bungi.net, consistent with a network of gateways rather than subscriber pools. - The AS announces only four IPv4 prefixes and a single IPv6 prefix. The address count is small because Bungi's business is carrying other people's traffic, not numbering end users.
Notable
- The technical contact on the ARIN record is David Rand, a long-time figure in Bay Area networking.
- This is a wholesale/transit network, so addresses seen from it are more likely to be network infrastructure or downstream business customers than residential users.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange | Fremont, United States | 206.80.238.7 |
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 4 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6596- Registry name
- ASN-BUNGI
- Registrant
- Bungi Communications
- Abuse contact
- dlr@bungi.com
- Registered
- 1996-06-03
- Last changed
- 1996-06-03
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 60% valid · 3 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS6596
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 10 naming AS6596
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 1,775 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