Autonomous system
AS7029 WINDSTREAM
Residential DROP-listed space ARIN
Summary
Windstream Communications
isp eyeball legacy
Autonomous System 7029 (WINDSTREAM) is the main network of Windstream Communications, a large US telephone and broadband carrier headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Its consumer broadband is sold under the Kinetic brand.
What it's used for
- Residential and small-business fixed broadband — DSL and fibre — across Windstream's largely rural and small-town US footprint, plus business circuits.
- Reverse DNS is textbook subscriber addressing:
h1.0.16.98.static.ip.windstream.netandh1.0.184.173.dynamic.ip.windstream.net, with separate static and dynamic pools.
Notable
- A very large eyeball network — thousands of announced IPv4 prefixes and one of the bigger IPv4 footprints in the ARIN region. Addresses here almost always mean a home or a small office, not a server.
- Windstream grew by acquisition, and its address space still shows it: parts of the network reverse to
ip.mcleodusa.net, from McLeodUSA, a competitive carrier absorbed into Windstream years ago.
Interesting
- The static/dynamic split is encoded directly in the reverse name, which makes Windstream space unusually easy to reason about:
dynamicmeans a rotating consumer line,statica fixed assignment.
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 12 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.237.16 |
| Seattle Internet Exchange | Seattle, United States | 206.81.80.106 |
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.71 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.71 |
| DE-CIX New York | New York, United States | 206.82.104.85 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Chicago | Chicago, United States | 208.115.136.149 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Dallas | Dallas, United States | 206.223.118.149 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose (Bay Area) | San Jose, United States | 206.223.116.213 |
Transit providers
14 upstream, 242 downstream and 298 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 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2,209 prefixes · 10.41M addresses IPv6 144 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2,353 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS7029- Registry name
- WINDSTREAM
- Registrant
- Windstream Communications LLC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@windstream.net
- Registered
- 1996-07-30
- Last changed
- 2025-07-07
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 87% valid · 2,765 valid, 408 with no ROA 11 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 3,760 authorising AS7029
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 93% registered · 2,968 of 3,184 announcements 100 other origin
- Route objects
- 4,969 naming AS7029
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
6 DROP matches Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 23.143.16.0/24 | 23.143.16.0/24 | SBL698941 |
| 45.150.212.0/22 | 45.150.212.0/22 | SBL698531 |
| 85.209.204.0/22 | 85.209.204.0/22 | SBL698066 |
| 134.195.104.0/22 | 134.195.104.0/22 | SBL690983 |
| 136.175.100.0/22 | 136.175.100.0/22 | SBL698797 |
| 212.68.164.0/22 | 212.68.164.0/22 | SBL693284 |
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