Autonomous system
AS968 PACKETFRAME
Hosting ARIN
Summary
Packetframe
research anycast legacy
A community-run anycast network (PACKETFRAME), Packetframe, operated on donations with an open peering policy.
What it's used for
- A global anycast network platform, used for services such as anycast DNS.
Notable
- A hobbyist/community research network, not a commercial ISP or host. It shares an AS-SET with the well-known AS112 project.
- The low AS number is an early-internet allocation, reclaimed and reassigned to the current holder (registered 2022).
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 6 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Speed Internet Exchange | Dronten, Netherlands | 185.1.222.166 |
| Ontario Internet Exchange | Toronto, Canada | 149.112.50.69 |
| FD-IX - Indianapolis | Indianapolis, United States | 206.53.139.38 |
| Puerto Rico Internet Exchange | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 204.138.0.21 |
| Amateur Radio Internet Exchange | Fremont, United States | 44.190.42.16 |
| CloudSingularity Internet Exchange | Vancouver, Canada | 206.83.46.15 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS34553 | Packetframe | 204 |
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 1 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS968- Registry name
- PACKETFRAME
- Registrant
- Packetframe
- Abuse contact
- nate@natesales.net
- Registered
- 2022-06-22
- Last changed
- 2022-06-22
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS968
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 12 naming AS968
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