Datacenter intelligence record
Cogent Communications AS174
Usually allowCogent Communications · AS174 · Transit / backbone · US
Transit
AS174
Transit / Backbone
DC, US
Confidence: High
- Provider
- Cogent Communications
- ASN
- AS174
- Country
- US
- Classification
- Transit / Backbone Traffic
Handling Guidance
Usually allow- Log as transit/backbone. Do not block solely by ASN; only enforce against specific abusive downstream ranges or traffic patterns.
- Datacenter matches are network-origin signals, not bot identities. Use them with request paths, cadence, user-agent evidence, and customer rules.
- Browser-looking traffic from cloud, hosting, VPS, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
Record Details
Provider and network data- Provider
- Cogent Communications
- Organization
- Cogent Communications
- ASN
- AS174
- ASN name
- COGENT-174
- Network
- COGENT-174
- Country
- US
- Region
- DC
- Services
- Internet backbone, transit, connectivity, downstream customer networks
- Provider type
- Transit / backbone
- Network type
- Transit / Backbone
- Classification
- Transit / Backbone Traffic
- Traffic label
- Transit
- Confidence
- High
- Risk
- Low
- Default action
- Log
- Rules supported
- allow, block, rate-limit, log
- Last verified
- 2026-06-25
- Status
- Active
Detection and Behavior
Operational guidance- Common traffic pattern: Cogent Communications traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Detection notes: Match by ASN AS174. Combine network identity with user-agent, path, rate, country, and rule outcomes before enforcement.
- Behavior thresholds: Flag when request volume, identical user-agent reuse, API/feed scraping, login probing, search abuse, or repeated non-human path traversal exceeds normal visitor behavior.
- Human monitoring relevance: Useful for separating datacenter-origin requests from real human visitor traffic. Agency human monitoring should not classify hosting/cloud requests as normal residential humans without additional signals.
- Recommended action: Log as transit/backbone. Do not block solely by ASN; only enforce against specific abusive downstream ranges or traffic patterns.
Intelligence Summary
- Cogent Communications is tracked by Botcrawl as transit / backbone associated with AS174. Traffic from this network should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
- Cogent Communications traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Log as transit/backbone. Do not block solely by ASN; only enforce against specific abusive downstream ranges or traffic patterns.
Evidence and Source
- Primary source: https://ipinfo.io/AS174
- Provider URL: https://www.cogentco.com/
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