Autonomous system
AS6950 LAMBDA
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Lambda Telecom
enterprise legacy
LAMBDA is Lambda Telecom, a small United States network. It announces a handful of scattered legacy /24-scale blocks, several of which are registered to other organisations, so it functions largely as a routing home for older address space rather than as a conventional ISP.
What it's used for
- Originating roughly seven small IPv4 prefixes and no IPv6. The blocks come from different registrants: one is
NETBLK-LAMBDA-NOCAL, held by Lambda Telecommunications since the early 1990s, while others belong to unrelated third-party organisations. - The mixed registrant picture is the honest signal here. A network announcing legacy blocks on behalf of their separate holders is doing address-space custody and transit, not running a subscriber base.
Notable
- Almost none of the announced space carries reverse DNS, and what little exists is joke or placeholder naming rather than the structured
dsl-/cust-patterns a real access network produces. - The registered technical contact is an individual network engineer, and the registrant is a PO box. Combined with the tiny footprint, this reads as a personal or boutique operation.
Interesting
- Because the announced blocks were allocated to different organisations in 1991, 1993 and later, no single origin story explains the whole footprint. Treat any claim about what this network "is" with caution: the inventory does not support a clean classification.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS19151 | BroadbandONE, LLC | 406 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS6950- Registry name
- LAMBDA
- Registrant
- Lambda Telecom
- Abuse contact
- nobody@example.com
- Registered
- 1996-07-05
- Last changed
- 2019-11-11
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS6950
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 7 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS6950
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 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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