Company:Hurricane Electric

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Hurricane Electric
TypePrivate
IndustryInternet service provider
Founded1994; 32 years ago (1994)
HeadquartersFremont, California, United States
Key people
  • Mike Leber, founder
  • Reid Fishler, Senior Director
  • Walt Wollny, Sr. peering manager
  • Mike Tindle, Sr. network admin
  • Jason Meyer, Sr. network admin
ServicesIP transit, colocation, dedicated servers
ASN
Peering policyOpen and Free (No Contract Required)
Websitewww.he.net

Hurricane Electric is a global Internet service provider offering Internet transit, tools, and network applications,[1] as well as data center colocation and hosting services at one location in San Jose, California[2] and two locations in Fremont, California,[3] where the company is based.

As of June 2024, according to its own data, Hurricane Electric is the largest global IP network as measured by network adjacencies in both IPv4 and IPv6.[4] It is also the largest global IPv6 network as measured by IPv6 prefixes announced, and the fifth-largest global IP network as measured by IPv4 prefixes announced, according to its own data.[5]

IPv6

Hurricane Electric operates the largest Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) transit networks globally, as measured by the count of peering interconnections to other networks.[6] The majority of these adjacencies are native IPv6 BGP sessions.

Hurricane Electric offers an IPv6 tunnel broker service,[7] providing free connectivity to the IPv6 Internet via 6in4 IPv6 transition mechanisms. Prior to 2020, the service allowed users to peer with Hurricane Electric over the tunnel using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to announce their routes. Users attempting to sign up to use BGP over a tunnel received a message that they were no longer available for free due to abuse. Regular tunnels remain available.[8] The company provides an online IPv6 certification program to further education and compliance in IPv6 technology.[9][10] As of June 18, 2024, the company reports 52,760 provisioned tunnels spanning 174 countries[11] via the IPv6 tunnel broker. 21,512 individuals in 164 countries have reached the highest level of the IPv6 certification.[12]

Peering

Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to more than 330 major exchange points[13][14] and exchanges IP traffic directly with more than 11,000 different networks.[15] Hurricane Electric currently has 50+ Terabits per second active public peering capacity and 400+ Terabits per second active private peering capacity.[13][16]

The European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) ranks Hurricane Electric first in the world for the number of connections to Internet exchange points, with presence at more than 170 of Euro-IX member IXPs.[17][18]

Cogent dispute

There is a long-running dispute between the provider Cogent Communications and Hurricane Electric. Cogent has been refusing to peer settlement-free with Hurricane Electric since 2009.[19][20]

IncogNET dispute

In July 2023, Hurricane Electric added a BGP filtering rule to deny traffic to and from the controversial discussion forum Kiwi Farms.[21] The ISP company IncogNET filed a complaint to the Washington State Attorney General's Office in response to this.[22] As of 2025, there is no publicly available record indicating that the Washington Attorney General pursued enforcement action or issued a formal ruling related to the complaint.[23][24]

References

  1. ↑ Cherry, Steven (2011-01-27). "IPv6 is Coming--Just in Time". IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/internet/ipv6-is-coming-just-in-time. 
  2. ↑ "Colocation at Hurricane Electric". http://he.net/colocation.html. 
  3. ↑ "About Hurricane Electric". https://www.he.net/about_us.html. 
  4. ↑ "BGP Peer Report: Adjacencies". https://bgp.he.net/report/peers. 
  5. ↑ "BGP Peer Report: Prefixes". https://bgp.he.net/report/peers#_prefixes. 
  6. ↑ Huston, Geoff. "AS's ordered by AS Adjacency". https://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as6447/bgp-as-adj.txt. 
  7. ↑ Henderson, Nicole (2011-06-06). "Hurricane Electric Launches Premium IPv6 Tunnel Broker Service". Web Host Industry Review. http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/hurricane-electric-launches-premium-ipv6-tunnel-broker-service. 
  8. ↑ blondguy (2020-04-23). "Hurricane Electric no longer offers free BGP tunnels". http://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/g6v7b2/hurricane_electric_no_longer_offers_free_bgp/. 
  9. ↑ Deploy360 Programme. "Training: Hurricane Electric Free IPv6 Certification". Internet Society (ISOC). https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360/2011/training-hurricane-electric-free-ipv6-certification/. "Hurricane Electric offers a series of free IPv6 "certification exams" aimed at helping you demonstrate your familiarity with IPv6 concepts and your ability to correctly configure IPv6 systems. Registration is free." 
  10. ↑ Salmela, Jacob (2013-11-03). "Earning the IPv6 Certification from Hurricane Electric on Mac OS X". https://jacobsalmela.com/2013/11/03/earning-the-ipv6-certification-from-hurricane-electric-on-mac-os-x/. 
  11. ↑ "Tunnels By Country". https://www.tunnelbroker.net/usage/tunnels_by_country.php. 
  12. ↑ "IPv6 Sages by Region". https://www.tunnelbroker.net/usage/sages.php. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Hurricane Electric Peering Policy". https://he.net/peering.html. 
  14. ↑ "Internet Exchange Report: - Exchange Participants". https://bgp.he.net/report/exchanges#_participants. 
  15. ↑ "AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC". https://bgp.he.net/AS6939. 
  16. ↑ "IP Transit". https://he.net/ip_transit.html. 
  17. ↑ "Hurricane Electric". https://ixpdb.euro-ix.net/en/explore/asn/6939/ixps/. 
  18. ↑ "IXPDB ASNs sorted by number of IXP connections". https://ixpdb.euro-ix.net/en/explore/asns/?sort=connections&reverse=1&. 
  19. ↑ McCarthy, Kieren (2018-08-28). "Another problem with IPv6: It's sparked a punch-up between top networks". https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/28/ipv6_peering_squabbles/. 
  20. ↑ Leber, Mike (2009-10-12). "IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering". NANOG mailing list. https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-October/014017.html. 
  21. ↑ Van der Sar, Ernesto (2023-10-19). "Kiwi Farms' Copyright Battle Could Spell Bad News for DMCA Transparency" (in en). https://torrentfreak.com/kiwi-farms-copyright-battle-could-spell-bad-news-for-dmca-transparency-231019/. 
  22. ↑ IncogNET (2023-07-29). "Today we filed an official complaint against @henet (Hurricane Electric) with the @AGOWA (Attorney General of Washington State) over their censorship of legal and protected speech.". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2023-07-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20230729194511/https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888. Retrieved 2023-08-09. 
  23. ↑ "IncogNET filed an official complaint against Hurricane Electric with the Washington State Attorney General". 2023. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/187690/incognet-filed-an-official-complaint-against-he-with-the-attorney-general-of-washington-state. 
  24. ↑ "Hurricane Electric blocking Kiwi Farms-related traffic". 2023. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37313349. 



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