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Autonomous System

AS668 · United States Department of Defense (DoD)

Overview

AS668 is announced on the Internet: RIPE RIS route collectors currently see 192 IPv4 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix originated by this network. Together, its IPv4 prefixes cover 2,555,904 addresses, with overlapping prefixes counted once. In the paths the collectors record, it has 8 upstream neighbours (transit providers or peers) and 27 downstream neighbours (customers or networks it carries). Its most visible upstreams are Hurricane Electric LLC (AS6939), Verizon Business (AS701), and NTT America, Inc. (AS2914). AS668 was assigned by ARIN, and its registration country is United States.

Source: RIPEstat (RIPE NCC), RIS route collectors. Read on October 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM UTC. This page is refreshed at most every 12 hours.

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The trace goes to 6.4.0.1, the first address of 6.4.0.0/16. An address picked inside a prefix may not answer (nothing listens there, or the network filters probes): the trace then shows the path up to the last network that replies.

Announced prefixes

IPv4 prefixes (192 prefixes)

PrefixAddresses
6.2.0.0/1816,384
6.2.64.0/198,192
6.2.96.0/221,024
6.2.104.0/221,024
6.2.112.0/221,024
6.2.120.0/221,024
6.3.0.0/1732,768
6.4.0.0/1665,536
6.11.1.0/24256
6.11.51.0/24256
6.11.250.0/24256
6.11.254.0/24256
6.15.100.0/24256
128.132.0.0/1665,536
128.160.0.0/1732,768
129.92.0.0/1665,536
129.229.0.0/1665,536
130.109.0.0/1665,536
130.163.0.0/1665,536
131.92.131.0/24256
131.92.132.0/221,024
131.92.136.0/212,048
131.92.144.0/212,048
131.92.162.0/23512
131.92.164.0/221,024
131.92.168.0/212,048
131.92.176.0/221,024
131.92.180.0/23512
131.92.182.0/23512
131.92.184.0/23512
131.92.186.0/24256
131.92.192.0/1816,384
131.120.0.0/1665,536
131.121.0.0/1665,536
131.122.0.0/1665,536
131.214.0.0/1665,536
131.218.0.0/1665,536
131.250.0.0/1732,768
131.250.128.0/1816,384
131.250.192.0/204,096
132.45.0.0/1665,536
132.193.0.0/1665,536
134.164.220.0/24256
134.166.0.0/1816,384
134.166.64.0/1816,384
134.166.128.0/221,024
134.166.132.0/23512
134.166.134.0/24256
134.166.135.0/24256
134.166.136.0/23512
134.166.138.0/24256
134.166.144.0/204,096
137.128.0.0/1665,536
140.5.0.0/1665,536
140.6.0.0/1665,536
140.25.0.0/1665,536
140.25.98.0/24256
140.27.8.0/221,024
140.27.10.0/23512
140.27.12.0/23512
140.27.14.0/23512
140.31.0.0/1665,536
140.32.0.0/1665,536
140.178.0.0/1665,536
143.56.0.0/1665,536
144.3.0.0/1665,536
147.227.0.0/1665,536
147.241.72.0/212,048
147.241.80.0/212,048
147.241.88.0/212,048
147.241.96.0/221,024
147.241.104.0/221,024
147.241.112.0/221,024
147.241.118.0/24256
147.241.120.0/221,024
147.241.126.0/24256
147.241.160.0/212,048
147.241.192.0/1816,384
147.248.48.0/204,096
150.125.0.0/1665,536
155.29.152.0/212,048
155.141.0.0/1665,536
155.148.0.0/1732,768
155.148.128.0/1816,384
155.148.192.0/198,192
155.148.224.0/204,096
155.148.240.0/212,048
155.154.0.0/1665,536
157.187.0.0/1665,536
158.12.0.0/1665,536
163.240.0.0/1665,536
164.49.0.0/1665,536
164.122.0.0/204,096
164.172.0.0/1665,536
164.173.0.0/1665,536
164.191.0.0/1665,536
192.5.17.0/24256
192.5.21.0/24256
192.5.22.0/24256
192.5.23.0/24256

Showing the first 100 of 192, in address order. Complete list on RIPEstat

IPv6 prefixes (1 prefix)

Prefix
2001:480::/32

Neighbours

Upstreams (transit or peers) (8)

ASNetworkVisibility
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC7,054
AS701Verizon Business647
AS2914NTT America, Inc.300
AS11537Internet2104
AS7575Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet)41
AS35889University of Hawaii8
AS6360University of Hawaii3
AS10764University of Illinois3

Downstreams (customers) (27)

ASNetworkVisibility
AS89Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)496
AS687United States Department of Defense (DoD)488
AS252Headquarters, USAISC351
AS289Headquarters, USAISC322
AS5957United States Department of Defense (DoD)318
AS13Headquarters, USAISC316
AS22Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)315
AS6009United States Department of Defense (DoD)313
AS518United States Department of Defense (DoD)312
AS213Headquarters, USAISC309
AS48-308
AS37-307
AS84-306
AS5058-306
AS121-278
AS5978-267
AS228-266
AS2621-266
AS393399-266
AS4221-246
AS5132-245
AS3381-242
AS5887-242
AS5980-242
AS6043-242
AS366-241
AS1508-7

1 more neighbour appears on both sides of this network depending on the path, so they are counted in neither list.

Visibility is RIPEstat's count of how often the route collectors observed the link. It compares neighbours with each other; it is not a traffic volume.

How to read this page

An Autonomous System (AS) is a network run under one routing policy: an internet provider, a cloud, a content network, a university. Each one has a number, its ASN, assigned by a regional registry (ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC), and uses BGP, the protocol networks use to tell each other where addresses are, to announce the blocks of addresses it delivers to.

A prefix such as 203.0.113.0/24 is a block of addresses: the number after the slash says how many bits are fixed, so a /24 holds 256 IPv4 addresses and a /16 holds 65,536. Networks often announce a large block and smaller pieces of it at the same time, which is why the address total counts each address once.

Neighbours come from the paths themselves. A network that appears just before this one in a path, on the collector's side, is an upstream: a transit provider or a peer. One that appears just after it is a downstream, usually a customer. Peering at an internet exchange also shows up as an upstream, so the upstream list is not a list of paid transit.

The data comes from RIPEstat, run by the RIPE NCC, which gathers the routing tables of hundreds of networks through its RIS route collectors. This page reads it when it is visited and keeps it for 12 hours at most; the BGP viewer reads it live.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find the ASN of an IP address?
Type the address in the BGP viewer: it shows the prefix that covers it, the AS that originates that prefix and the paths seen towards it. A traceroute also names the network of each hop, so you can see every AS a connection crosses.
Why does one company have several ASNs?
Large operators split their network by region, by activity or by history: a cloud may use one number for its backbone and another for a region, and every acquisition brings its own numbers. Each number has its own page, with its own prefixes and neighbours.
Why do prefix counts differ from one site to another?
Each source sees the routing table from different collectors, at a different time, and counts differently: some include prefixes withdrawn in recent weeks, some merge a block and its pieces. This page counts the prefixes RIPE RIS collectors see originated by the network at the end of the latest two-week window, and counts each IPv4 address once.
Is this the list of IP ranges of a cloud provider?
It is what its networks announce, which is what the Internet routes to them. Many providers also publish an official list of ranges per service and region; that list is the reference for firewall rules, because a range can be announced before it is used, or announced by another of their AS numbers.