Autonomous system
AS10084 WAIA-TRANSIT-AP Western Australian Internet Association
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Internet Association of Australia — IX Australia Content Network
WAIA-TRANSIT-AP is the auxiliary content network run by the Internet Association of Australia, the not-for-profit behind IX Australia. It is not the exchange fabric itself; it is the AS that hangs CDN caches and exchange infrastructure off that fabric.
What it's used for
IAA operates Australia's only neutral, not-for-profit peering exchange, with points of presence in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. AS10084 exists so that content providers can drop hardware into those PoPs and reach every IAA peer over one short path. The caches sitting behind it are the usual set: Netflix Open Connect, Meta Network Appliances, Steam and Microsoft Connected Cache. It also carries IAA's own operational plumbing.
Notable
The kind here is hosting, specifically cache hosting, and reverse DNS proves it rather than the handle. Sampled PTRs return collector01.nsw.ix.asn.au and metrics.wa.ix.asn.au — a route collector and a monitoring host, exactly the exchange-operations kit you would expect — alongside games03.wa.reload.gg, a game-server tenant. RIS sees 9 IPv4 prefixes / 2,304 addresses and 8 IPv6 prefixes with only 14 observed neighbours. Note what that combination rules out: the handle says TRANSIT, but a real wholesale carrier would show hundreds of neighbours. Fourteen is a small, deliberate peering set.
Interesting
The WAIA in the handle is a fossil. This began as the Western Australian Internet Association and went national, but the AS name never followed. The .asn.au PTRs are the honest label.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 7 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX Australia (Sydney NSW) | Sydney, Australia | 218.100.52.200 |
| IX Australia (Melbourne VIC) | Melbourne, Australia | 218.100.78.200 |
| IX Australia (Perth WA) | Perth, Australia | 27.106.192.200 |
| IX Australia (Brisbane QLD) | Brisbane, Australia | 218.100.76.200 |
| IX Australia (Adelaide SA) | Adelaide, Australia | 218.100.54.100 |
| IX Australia (Canberra ACT) | Canberra, Australia | 218.100.54.200 |
| IX Australia (Hobart TAS) | Hobart, Australia | 27.106.194.100 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 6 prefixes · 2.30K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 8 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10084- Registry name
- WAIA-TRANSIT-AP
- Registrant
- Internet Association of Australia Inc.
- Abuse contact
- abuse@ix.asn.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2025-09-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 17 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS10084
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 17 of 17 announcements
- Route objects
- 92 naming AS10084
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere