AS8038 — 6CONNECT

Network type: hosting

AS8038 announces 5 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 11 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

6CONNECT — the network of 6connect, Inc., the network-automation software company behind ProVision (IPAM, DNS, DHCP and peering automation). Founded in 2009 around the problem of IPv6 migration, it runs this AS for its own infrastructure and its hosted product.

What it's used for

• 6connect's corporate and product infrastructure: the SaaS side of ProVision, company mail and edge gear.
• IPv6 work. The company's whole reason for existing is address management, and the AS reflects it.

Notable

• Tiny in IPv4 (67.221.240.0/20, about 2,000 addresses across eight /24s) but it shows 80+ observed BGP neighbours. That ratio is unusual and it is not a transit business: 6connect is deeply embedded in the peering community and present on a lot of exchange fabrics for a company of its size.
• Reverse DNS is all first-party operations naming — core1.fmt.6connect.com (Fremont), mailgate-ape1.6connect.com, www-cloud.6connect.com — plus a firewall interface named for Ljubljana. No subscriber pools, no customer hosting.
• More IPv6 prefixes than IPv4 ones, including 2607:fae0::/32 and a RIPE 2a00:8642::/32. A few names in the space (tcp0.com) belong to associates rather than 6connect itself, so treat individual hosts on their own merits.

Interesting

• 6connect claims to have been the first vendor to integrate its product directly with a Regional Internet Registry. An AS with almost no addresses and a great many peers is what a company that manages addressing for other people looks like.

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

Announced prefixes

• 67.221.240.0/24
• 67.221.242.0/24
• 67.221.244.0/24
• 67.221.246.0/24
• 67.221.250.0/24
• 2607:fae0::/38
• 2607:fae0:246::/47
• 2607:fae0:248::/45
• 2607:fae0:250::/44
• 2607:fae0:260::/43
• 2607:fae0:280::/41
• 2607:fae0:300::/40
• 2607:fae0:400::/38
• 2607:fae0:800::/37
• 2607:fae0:2000::/36
• 2607:fae0:a000::/35

Upstream networks

• AS56635 XENYA inzeniring, proizvodnja in trgovina, d.o.o. Ljubljana
• AS5603 Telekom Slovenije, d.d.
• AS203993 S.J.M. Steffann
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC

Downstream networks

• AS215771 John David Verolme trading as VeroCon

Adjacent networks

• AS56635 XENYA inzeniring, proizvodnja in trgovina, d.o.o. Ljubljana
• AS5603 Telekom Slovenije, d.d.
• AS203993 S.J.M. Steffann
• AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions
• AS213241 TECHIT.BE SRL
• AS1103 SURF B.V.
• AS215771 John David Verolme trading as VeroCon
• AS50300 CustodianDC Limited
• AS48185 team.blue NV
• AS3333 Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)
• AS48362 Stadtwerke Feldkirch
• AS34019 Hivane Association
• AS39686 Eurofiber Nederland BV
• AS12552 GlobalConnect AB
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS20766 Association "Gitoyen"
• AS57463 NetIX Communications JSC
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS12779 IT.Gate S.p.A.
• AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"

Internet exchanges

• AMS-IX Amsterdam — Amsterdam, Netherlands
• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange — Fremont, United States
• Equinix Internet Exchange Palo Alto — Palo Alto, United States