ASN & carrier targeting

✓Residential — supported—Rotating ISP — not supported—Rotating DC — not supported

An ASN identifies the network an IP belongs to: Comcast, Verizon, Vodafone. Use it when the target treats traffic differently by carrier.

Usage

Send the number. AS prefixes and stray characters are stripped, so AS7018, as7018 and 7018 are the same request.

curl -x USERNAME:[email protected]:8000 \
  https://api.ipify.org

curl --proxy-header "X-Rayobyte-Asn: 7018" \
  -x us-east.gw.rayobyte.com:8000 https://api.ipify.org

Value rules

One to ten letters or digits, normalized down to the digits.

Finding an ASN

Look up a carrier’s ASN at bgp.he.net or any RIR WHOIS. Large carriers hold several. Comcast alone announces from more than one, so an exit on “Comcast” may not carry the ASN you picked.

Pair it with a country

-country-US-asn-7018

Some operators run networks in several countries under one ASN. Without a country you may egress from a different one than you expect.

Volume drops fast

Filtering by carrier cuts the pool to the devices on that one network. Stack it with a city or a ZIP and you are down to a handful of devices, which fails whenever none of them are online.

Use ASN alone with a country first. Add geography only if you still need it.