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Autonomous system

AS6939 HURRICANE

Transit ARIN NSP

IPv4 addresses 374K 462 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 208 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly US
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Hurricane Electric LLC

Global · AI-generated

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.net free IPv6 tunnel service and the bgp.he.net looking 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.

Address space

Summary

Full explorer
CountryNamePrefixes
USUnited States of America670

Registry

Allocation record

via ARIN RDAP
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
Status
active

Declared

PeeringDB profile

self-reported
Name
Hurricane Electric
Also known as
HE.net
Network type
NSP
Scope
Global
Traffic ratio
Balanced
Peering policy
Open
IRR as-set
RADB::AS-HURRICANE RADB::AS-HURRICANEV6
Present at
336 exchanges
Facilities
343 facilities
Website
http://he.net

PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.

Reputation

Classification and threat

Transit Tier-1 or major backbone carrying other networks’ traffic.

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

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