Autonomous system
AS8038 6CONNECT
Hosting ARIN
Summary
6connect
enterprise legacy
6CONNECT — the network of 6connect, Inc., the network-automation software company behind ProVision (IPAM, DNS, DHCP and peering automation). Founded in 2009 around the problem of IPv6 migration, it runs this AS for its own infrastructure and its hosted product.
What it's used for
- 6connect's corporate and product infrastructure: the SaaS side of ProVision, company mail and edge gear.
- IPv6 work. The company's whole reason for existing is address management, and the AS reflects it.
Notable
- Tiny in IPv4 (
67.221.240.0/20, about 2,000 addresses across eight /24s) but it shows 80+ observed BGP neighbours. That ratio is unusual and it is not a transit business: 6connect is deeply embedded in the peering community and present on a lot of exchange fabrics for a company of its size. - Reverse DNS is all first-party operations naming —
core1.fmt.6connect.com(Fremont),mailgate-ape1.6connect.com,www-cloud.6connect.com— plus a firewall interface named for Ljubljana. No subscriber pools, no customer hosting. - More IPv6 prefixes than IPv4 ones, including
2607:fae0::/32and a RIPE2a00:8642::/32. A few names in the space (tcp0.com) belong to associates rather than 6connect itself, so treat individual hosts on their own merits.
Interesting
- 6connect claims to have been the first vendor to integrate its product directly with a Regional Internet Registry. An AS with almost no addresses and a great many peers is what a company that manages addressing for other people looks like.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 4 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.215.200 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.10.63 |
| Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange | Fremont, United States | 206.80.238.35 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Palo Alto | Palo Alto, United States | 198.32.176.51 |
Transit providers
17 upstream, 1 downstream and 30 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS56635 | XENYA inzeniring, proizvodnja in trgovina, d.o.o. Ljubljana | 409 |
| AS5603 | Telekom Slovenije, d.d. | 94 |
| AS203993 | S.J.M. Steffann | 81 |
| AS20473 | The Constant Company, LLC | 78 |
| AS37721 | Virtual Technologies & Solutions | 7 |
| AS213241 | TECHIT.BE SRL | 5 |
| AS1103 | SURF B.V. | 4 |
| AS3333 | Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) | 4 |
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 5 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 14 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 19 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8038- Registry name
- 6CONNECT
- Registrant
- 6connect, Inc.
- Abuse contact
- ops+arin-whois1@6connect.com
- Registered
- 2009-06-05
- Last changed
- 2012-03-02
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 17 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 24 authorising AS8038
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 88% registered · 15 of 17 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 45 naming AS8038
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: 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