AS7941 — INTERNET-ARCHIVE

AS7941 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 6,146 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

The network of the Internet Archive (INTERNET-ARCHIVE), the San Francisco non-profit digital library behind archive.org and the Wayback Machine.

What it's used for

• Serving archive.org, the Wayback Machine, Open Library and the Archive's streaming and full-text search services.
• Hosting the Archive's own storage clusters. Reverse DNS on the announced space is unmistakable: www.archive.org, node names like ia801200.us.archive.org for the petabox storage servers, and fold1.toronto.archive.org for the Canadian mirror.

Notable

• The Archive runs its own infrastructure rather than renting cloud capacity, so this AS fronts one of the larger self-hosted content libraries on the public internet from a comparatively small address footprint (roughly 6k IPv4 plus a /48 of IPv6).
• The address space is directly registered to the Internet Archive with ARIN, and the ASN itself dates to a 1997 registration.

Interesting

• The Toronto rDNS reflects the Archive's deliberate policy of keeping a full copy of its collections outside the United States.

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

Announced prefixes

• 137.164.35.40/31
• 207.241.224.0/20
• 208.70.24.0/21
• 2607:f380:1::118:9a42:3280/123
• 2620:0:9c0::/48

Upstream networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11404 Wave Broadband
• AS2152 CENIC

Adjacent networks

• AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS174 Cogent Communications, LLC
• AS11404 Wave Broadband
• AS2152 CENIC

Internet exchanges

• San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange — San Francisco, United States