AS6450 — PIXNET-AS

AS6450 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

PIXNET-AS — Providers Internet Exchange, an ARIN registration from April 1996 listing a post-office box in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It is a survivor of the mid-1990s Philadelphia-area internet scene rather than an active, identifiable service today.

What it's used for

• Hard to say honestly. It announces four small legacy /24s from 198.186.190.0 onward, a block whose ARIN record is registered to Prescient Software, Inc. — a different name again — and none of it carries public reverse DNS.
• Its routing today comes from a single upstream, a Usenet service provider, so the address space is reachable but gives away nothing about its use.

Notable

• Despite the name, there is no evidence this operates as an internet exchange point in the modern sense. "Internet exchange" was used loosely in the 1990s for provider co-operatives and interconnect projects.
• The technical contacts on the original records are recognisable figures from the 1990s Philadelphia ISP world, which fits the era but does not tell you who runs the network now.
• Because the operator's current activity cannot be established from registry, routing, or DNS evidence, this network is deliberately left unclassified rather than forced into a category.

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

Announced prefixes

• 198.186.190.0/23
• 198.186.192.0/23
• 198.186.194.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS30094 Giganews, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS30094 Giganews, Inc.

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 3 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 67% of announcements registered; 15 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-AUTH-SERVERS_ALL, AS-DETEQUE-CUSTOMERS, AS-DETEQUE-CUSTOMERS, AS-GIGANEWS-ALL, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HWNG-DOWNSTREAMS, AS-MFC, AS-READNEWS, AS-READNEWS-INTERNAL, AS13335:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS37271:AS-TEST-CF, AS54054:AS-CONE, AS54054:AS-DETEQUE-CUSTOMERS, AS54054:AS-GLOBAL.