Autonomous system
AS10110 MITNZ-AS-AP Manukau Institute of Technology
Education APNIC
Summary
Manukau Institute of Technology
MITNZ-AS-AP belongs to the Manukau Institute of Technology, a public polytechnic in South Auckland, New Zealand. This is a campus network: staff, students, teaching labs and the handful of institutional services that have to face the internet.
What it's used for
Connecting MIT's Auckland campuses. The AS announces 3 IPv4 prefixes totalling 768 addresses (202.14.216.0/24, 203.176.154.0/24, 203.176.155.0/24) and no IPv6. The sampled reverse DNS lands squarely inside the institution's own academic domain: 203.176.154.133 answers as proxy4.manukau.ac.nz. A numbered web proxy is a very campus-shaped host. Schools and polytechnics have historically run outbound proxy farms so that student and staff browsing is filtered, cached and attributable, and the .ac.nz second-level domain is reserved for New Zealand tertiary institutions, so the PTR is confirmation from the naming authority as well as from the operator.
Notable
This is an education network, and the routing settles it independently of the name. Three /24s against a single observed BGP neighbour is a single-homed end site: one upstream, no customers, no peering. Neither a carrier nor a hosting provider looks like that. Traffic leaving this space is overwhelmingly campus users behind NAT and proxies, not servers.
Interesting
Because the outbound path is proxied, a large number of distinct students can appear behind one address here. Treat individual IPs in this space as shared institutional egress rather than as single users.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS38022 | REANNZ National Research and Education Network | 186 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS10110- Registry name
- MIOTAU-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Manukau Institute of Technology and Unitec
- Abuse contact
- abuse@unitec.ac.nz
- Registered
- 2026-06-22
- Last changed
- 2026-06-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS10110
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS10110
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. 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