| Full name | Hurricane Electric LLC |
| ASN | AS6939 |
| Type | Transit Provider / Hosting |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | Fremont, California, US |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Website | he.net |
| Registry | ARIN |
| Total IPs | ~2 million (IPv4) |
| Upstream | Tier-2 with extensive peering — connected to over 200 IXPs |
| IPv6 | 2001:470::/32 |
| RIR | ARIN |
| Abuse email | abuse@he.net |
| Abuse form | Report abuse → |
AS6939 is Hurricane Electric's network ASN — a transit and hosting provider famous for its extensive IPv6 deployment and free IPv6 tunnel broker service. Hurricane Electric peers at more internet exchanges than almost any other network and operates the most connected IPv6 network in the world. The bgp.he.net website — a widely-used BGP and ASN lookup tool — is operated by Hurricane Electric.
Every time you visit a website, your IP address — and therefore your ISP (Hurricane Electric LLC) — is visible to that site. Hurricane Electric LLC as your ISP can see all unencrypted traffic passing through their network, including the domains you visit. This is standard practice for all ISPs and is typically used for network management, legal compliance, and in some cases targeted advertising.
If your device is assigned an IP in Hurricane Electric LLC’s ranges, websites you visit will identify your connection as coming from Hurricane Electric LLC. To prevent this, a VPN replaces your ISP-assigned IP with the VPN server’s IP, making your traffic appear to come from a different provider entirely.
AS6939 is registered with ARIN — the Regional Internet Registry responsible for IP allocations in North America. The ASN is used to announce IP prefixes to the global BGP routing table, allowing other networks to route traffic to Hurricane Electric LLC’s infrastructure.
Hurricane Electric LLC peers with major transit providers and internet exchanges to ensure global reachability. BGP peering relationships determine how traffic flows between Hurricane Electric LLC and the rest of the internet.
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