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AS56044 China Mobile communications corporationASN lookup: IP ranges, prefixes and network type

AS56044 is the autonomous system number (ASN) announced by China Mobile communications corporation. It announces 181 prefixes, 966,656 IPv4 addresses in total. Every address inside those ranges is routed by this operator, which is what makes the number the shortest answer to who runs a given address.

AS56044 at a glance

Reference data for AS56044
OrganisationChina Mobile communications corporation
Autonomous systemAS56044
Network typeMobile carrier
IPv4 prefixes91
IPv6 prefixes90
IPv4 addresses966,656Summed across every announced prefix. IPv6 is not counted; the numbers are meaningless at that scale.
In known VPN ranges0 of 91 prefixes
In known datacenter ranges0 of 91 prefixes

The last two rows are a second opinion, counted against the X4BNet VPN and datacenter range lists rather than read off the operator name. A network with most of its prefixes in the VPN list is carrying anonymised traffic whatever it calls itself.

Sample prefixes

The largest ranges China Mobile communications corporation announces, biggest first. These are a sample and not the full routing table: 181 prefixes do not fit on a page, and the ones worth showing are the ones most traffic comes from.

The largest prefixes announced by AS56044
PrefixFamilyAddresses
36.128.0.0/15IPv4131,072
112.40.0.0/15IPv4131,072
36.130.0.0/16IPv465,536
39.152.0.0/16IPv465,536
112.39.0.0/16IPv465,536
112.42.0.0/16IPv465,536
120.200.0.0/16IPv465,536
223.101.0.0/16IPv465,536
223.102.0.0/16IPv465,536
39.153.0.0/17IPv432,768
111.45.128.0/17IPv432,768
223.100.0.0/17IPv432,768
Live check

Look up an address on AS56044

The field is prefilled with 36.128.0.1, the first address of the largest range above. Change it for one from your own logs and you get the network, the operator and the verdict for that specific address.

What AS56044 means for detection

Addresses on China Mobile communications corporation are mobile: phones and tablets behind carrier NAT. Our engine classifies them residential, with one caveat worth knowing. Carrier NAT puts thousands of subscribers behind one address, so an IP-level block here reaches far more people than intended, and rate limits keyed on the address will punish an entire city. Geolocation is coarse for the same reason.

The verdict for a single address is never settled by the ASN alone. It is the starting point, and IP Detection adds range membership, behaviour and history on top of it before it answers.

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IPScanner. AS56044 China Mobile communications corporation, ASN directory. https://ipscanner.io/nl/asn/as56044. Derived from MaxMind GeoLite2.