AS10695 — WAL-MART - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

AS10695 announces 72 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,502,208 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

WAL-MART is Walmart's own autonomous system, and it is one of the largest purely private enterprise networks on the internet. RIS observes 56 announced IPv4 prefixes carrying roughly 1,511,680 addresses — the great majority of them full /16s — with no IPv6 and only 4 BGP neighbours.

What it's used for

This is corporate and retail-estate networking at continental scale. The announced blocks are consecutive /16s out of 156.84.0.0–156.95.0.0 and 161.164.0.0–161.177.0.0, an unusually clean, contiguous holding that reflects allocations made directly to a very large organisation rather than assembled from scraps. Every address sampled in reverse DNS answers with the bare name walmart.com, a blanket first-party PTR applied across the estate. Space of this shape and size supports stores, distribution centers, point-of-sale systems, back-office sites and internal services — tens of thousands of locations, each needing routable addressing.

Notable

The ratio here is the story. About 1.5 million addresses against just 4 observed BGP neighbours: enormous address consumption, almost no interconnection. That is the definitive enterprise signature, and the exact inverse of a carrier, which peers with hundreds of networks while announcing far less space. Walmart is not selling connectivity to anyone; it is consuming it from a small number of upstreams.

Interesting

The public-facing walmart.com storefront is not what fills this AS. Consumer web traffic is served through CDNs and cloud platforms; this network is the private plumbing behind the world's largest retailer.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 63.79.89.0/24
• 65.155.135.0/24
• 146.132.0.0/16
• 156.84.0.0/14
• 156.88.0.0/16
• 156.90.4.0/22
• 156.90.8.0/21
• 156.90.16.0/20
• 156.90.32.0/19
• 156.90.64.0/18
• 156.90.128.0/17
• 156.91.0.0/16
• 156.92.0.0/17
• 156.92.128.0/18
• 156.92.192.0/19
• 156.92.228.0/24
• 156.92.232.0/21
• 156.92.240.0/20
• 156.93.228.0/24
• 156.93.230.0/24
• 156.93.232.0/24
• 156.93.234.0/24
• 156.93.240.0/24
• 156.93.242.0/24
• 156.93.244.0/24
• 156.93.246.0/24
• 156.93.248.0/24
• 156.93.250.0/24
• 156.93.252.0/24
• 156.93.254.0/24
• 156.94.0.0/15
• 161.163.8.0/21
• 161.163.16.0/21
• 161.163.24.0/22
• 161.163.30.0/23
• 161.163.32.0/21
• 161.163.40.0/22
• 161.163.45.0/24
• 161.163.46.0/23
• 161.163.48.0/20
• 161.163.66.0/23
• 161.163.68.0/22
• 161.163.72.0/21
• 161.163.80.0/20
• 161.163.96.0/19
• 161.163.128.0/17
• 161.164.0.0/17
• 161.164.128.0/18
• 161.164.192.0/19
• 161.164.224.0/20
• 161.164.240.0/21
• 161.164.252.0/23
• 161.165.0.0/17
• 161.165.128.0/18
• 161.165.192.0/20
• 161.165.208.0/21
• 161.165.216.0/23
• 161.165.220.0/22
• 161.165.224.0/19
• 161.166.0.0/16
• 161.169.0.0/16
• 161.171.0.0/16
• 161.172.0.0/15
• 161.174.2.0/23
• 161.174.4.0/22
• 161.174.8.0/21
• 161.174.16.0/20
• 161.174.32.0/19
• 161.174.64.0/18
• 161.174.128.0/17
• 161.175.0.0/16
• 161.176.0.0/15

Upstream networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS209 CenturyLink Communications, LLC
• AS32851 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Downstream networks

• AS32851 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS3356 Level 3 Parent, LLC
• AS6461 Zayo Bandwidth
• AS209 CenturyLink Communications, LLC
• AS32851 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 55 not-found announcements; 1 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 96% of announcements registered; 61 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-CN, AS-COX-CENTRAL, AS-DEFENSE, AS-EGRESS, AS-WALMART, AS-WALMART, AS10695:AS-CONE, AS17623:AS-CNCGROUP-SZ, AS35280:AS-DEFENSE.