Autonomous system
AS8796 FD-298-8796
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Fastnet Data Inc
broker hosting legacy
FD-298-8796 is Fastnet Data Inc, registered in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and operationally linked to Kurun Cloud Inc (RADB objects maintained by noc@kurun.com). The low AS number is misleading: the ASN was registered on 2022-04-04, so this is a modern reissue, not an early-internet holder.
What it's used for
Assembling and announcing leased IPv4 space. The AS originates roughly 182,000 addresses across 318 fragmented prefixes (plus 24 IPv6), drawn from ARIN, RIPE and APNIC at once, behind a mix of upstreams (Arelion, NTT, Voxility, CNServer, China Telecom).
Notable
- The prefixes are registered to many unrelated third parties, not to Fastnet Data. Sampled
/24s trace to Starcloud Global (Singapore), Kurun Cloud, Cloud Innovation Ltd (Seychelles), Hong Kong Communications International, Prime Security Corp, Ayaka Tech LLC, YUGS Networks, anHK-XNNETblock, and IPXO-brokered space (a "Private Customer" in New Zealand under IPXO LLC / Internet Utilities NA). That spread across registries and shell holders, with IPXO in the chain, is the IP-leasing / address-broker signature. - This space must not be geolocated to the holder. The blocks belong to different operators in different countries; a single California placement for the whole AS would be wrong, and so would any per-holder eyeball inference.
- Almost no PTRs came back on addresses sampled inside the announced prefixes, so the pack offers no first-party evidence of what individual hosts run.
Interesting
Automated classifiers split between "hosting" and "eyeball" here. Neither fits: the honest answer is an aggregator of third-party address space, held out of every kind bucket rather than forced into one.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.108 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.108 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 8 downstream and 21 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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 90 prefixes · 145K addresses IPv6 24 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 114 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS8796- Registry name
- FD-298-8796
- Registrant
- FASTNET DATA INC
- Abuse contact
- abuse@fastnetdata.com
- Registered
- 2022-04-04
- Last changed
- 2022-04-04
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 45% valid · 240 valid, 293 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 182 authorising AS8796
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.6% registered · 531 of 533 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,421 naming AS8796
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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