AS6185 — APPLE-AUSTIN

Network type: hosting

AS6185 announces 29 IPv4 prefixes covering 22,272 addresses and 40 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

APPLE-AUSTIN is one of Apple Inc.'s autonomous systems, named for the company's Austin, Texas campus. It is registered to Apple under a legacy ARIN organisation handle.

What it's used for

• Apple's own network: content-edge and service delivery alongside corporate infrastructure, announcing prefixes drawn from Apple's 17.0.0.0/8 space plus IPv6 in several regions.
• Roughly 22k IPv4 addresses across a wide spread of prefixes, many of them small edge announcements placed close to users.

Notable

• An enterprise AS, not a commercial hosting network. Apple builds and runs this capacity for its own products; none of it is sold as compute or transit.
• ARIN's registration for the ASN dates to 1995, and Apple holds one of the last remaining single-company Class A allocations, 17.0.0.0/8, which most of this AS's IPv4 comes from.

Interesting

• Apple is one of a small handful of organisations that still holds an entire /8 and actually uses it. Announcing pieces of it from a geographically named AS is how that address space gets spread across the company's edge footprint.

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

Announced prefixes

• 17.253.2.0/23
• 17.253.4.0/22
• 17.253.8.0/21
• 17.253.16.0/23
• 17.253.18.0/24
• 17.253.20.0/22
• 17.253.24.0/24
• 17.253.26.0/23
• 17.253.28.0/22
• 17.253.34.0/24
• 17.253.36.0/22
• 17.253.48.0/23
• 17.253.52.0/23
• 17.253.54.0/24
• 17.253.56.0/23
• 17.253.60.0/22
• 17.253.64.0/21
• 17.253.72.0/22
• 17.253.76.0/23
• 17.253.84.0/22
• 17.253.94.0/23
• 17.253.96.0/23
• 17.253.104.0/22
• 17.253.108.0/23
• 17.253.111.0/24
• 17.253.112.0/21
• 17.253.121.0/24
• 17.253.122.0/24
• 17.253.124.0/22
• 2403:300:a04::/47
• 2403:300:a08::/48
• 2403:300:a0a::/48
• 2403:300:a0c::/48
• 2403:300:a0e::/48
• 2403:300:a14::/48
• 2403:300:a16::/48
• 2403:300:a26::/48
• 2403:300:a30::/48
• 2403:300:a32::/47
• 2620:149:a00::/48
• 2620:149:a06::/48
• 2620:149:a08::/47
• 2620:149:a0c::/46
• 2620:149:a10::/48
• 2620:149:a15::/48
• 2620:149:a16::/48
• 2620:149:a18::/48
• 2620:149:a1e::/48
• 2620:149:a23::/48
• 2620:149:a25::/48
• 2620:149:a28::/47
• 2620:149:a32::/47
• 2620:149:ae1::/48
• 2620:149:ae6::/48
• 2a01:b740:a02::/48
• 2a01:b740:a06::/48
• 2a01:b740:a08::/48
• 2a01:b740:a0a::/48
• 2a01:b740:a10::/47
• 2a01:b740:a14::/48
• 2a01:b740:a16::/48
• 2a01:b740:a18::/48
• 2a01:b740:a1c::/48
• 2a01:b740:a1e::/48
• 2a01:b740:a20::/48
• 2a01:b740:a22::/48
• 2a01:b740:a24::/48
• 2a01:b740:a26::/47
• 2a01:b740:a30::/48

Upstream networks

• AS714 Apple Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS714 Apple Inc.

Internet exchanges

• Equinix Internet Exchange Melbourne — Melbourne, Australia