Autonomous system
AS6939 HURRICANE
Transit DROP-listed space ARIN
Summary
Hurricane Electric LLC
transit ipv6 network
Hurricane Electric (HE) is a large global IP transit and colocation provider, especially well known for its enormous IPv6 footprint and free tunnel service.
What it's used for
- Providing IP transit and peering to networks, data centers, and hosting providers worldwide.
- Operating the popular
tunnelbroker.netfree IPv6 tunnel service and thebgp.he.netlooking glass / network research portal.
Notable
- HE peers at an exceptionally large number of internet exchanges and often appears as a hop in traceroutes even when neither endpoint is its customer.
- Its rDNS names encode PoP locations (e.g.
...core1.lax1.he.net), which makes HE routers useful landmarks for geolocating a network path.
Interesting
- HE has long run public campaigns to push IPv6 adoption, including a free IPv6 certification program.
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 256 exchanges in 57 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.221.197 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.192.172 |
| IX.br (PTT.br) Fortaleza | Fortaleza, Brazil | 45.68.72.214 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.21 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.150 |
| Neutral Internet Exchange | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 193.239.116.14 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.42 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.10 |
Transit providers
71 upstream, 10,762 downstream and 9,854 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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 519 prefixes · 394K addresses IPv6 211 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 730 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6939- Registry name
- HURRICANE
- Registrant
- Hurricane Electric LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@he.net
- Registered
- 1996-06-28
- Last changed
- 2003-11-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 85% valid · 235 valid, 42 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 414 authorising AS6939
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 92% registered · 256 of 277 announcements 8 other origin
- Route objects
- 745 naming AS6939
Reputation
Classification and threat
Transit Tier-1 or major backbone carrying other networks’ traffic.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
1 DROP match Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 204.14.80.0/22 | 204.14.80.0/22 | SBL492818 |
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