Overview
Rackspace is tracked by Botcrawl as a cloud network associated with AS27357.
This record includes the representative IPv4 range 146.20.0.0/16. It is not an exhaustive list of the Network’s announced prefixes.
This is a network-origin record, not an exact physical-facility location or proof of automation. Use ASN and CIDR identity together with User-Agent, request path, rate, session behavior, and application context before enforcement.
Provider and network
- Provider Name
- Rackspace
- Organization
- Rackspace Technology
- ISP
- Rackspace Technology
- ASN
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AS27357 - ASN Name
- RACKSPACE-IAD
- Network Name
- RACKSPACE
- Services
- Rackspace managed hosting and cloud infrastructure
- Provider Type
- cloud
- Network Type
- cloud-network
IP range
- IP Version
-
IPv4 - IP / CIDR
-
146.20.0.0/16 - Range Scope
-
representative - Range Label
-
Representative CIDR - Range Start
-
146.20.0.0 - Range End
-
146.20.255.255 - Example IP
- 146.20.0.1
- Example IP Decimal
-
2450784257
Network scope
- Registry Country
- US
Traffic and handling
- Traffic Classification
- Cloud / Hosting Network Traffic
- Traffic Label
- Cloud / Hosting Network
- Risk Level
- medium
- Recommended Action
- Log by default. Rate-limit or block only when behavior indicates abusive automation, scanning, scraping, credential attacks, or policy violations.
- Default Rule Action
- log
- Common Pattern
- Traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, shared-hosting, dedicated-hosting, proxy, crawler, scanner, or automated application traffic.
- Detection Notes
- Match AS27357 and representative CIDR 146.20.0.0/16. Match the ASN and representative CIDR, then correlate User-Agent, request path, rate, session behavior, and rule outcomes before enforcement.