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Autonomous system

AS17492 VECTOR-COMMUNICATIONS-AS Vector Communications LTD.

Residential APNIC

IPv4 addresses 37.38K 8 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly NZ
Exchanges 4 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 5 5 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Vector Communications

New Zealand · AI-generated

residential isp nz fibre

VECTOR-COMMUNICATIONS-AS is operated by Vector Communications Ltd.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries residential and business internet access, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to vectorcommunications.net.nz and a school mail server (mail.hendersonint.school.nz).
  • With 37,376 IPv4 addresses announced across 8 prefixes and 16 observed neighbours, the high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.

Notable

  • Registrants are predominantly consistent with the announcer, with most prefixes registered to Vector Communications Ltd under the netname VECTOR.
  • Two prefixes are registered to third parties: 202.36.255.0/24 is registered to Auckland Council and 202.37.75.0/24 to Orchestral Developments Limited, suggesting leased or historically allocated space.
  • The inventory includes a large /17 block (101.100.0.0/17) alongside smaller /24 and /21 allocations, reflecting a mix of legacy and modern address space.

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

Recorded at 4 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
Megaport IX SydneySydney, Australia103.26.68.104
IX Australia (Sydney NSW)Sydney, Australia218.100.52.93
New Zealand Internet Exchange AucklandAuckland, New Zealand43.243.21.11
MegaPort-IX AucklandAuckland, New Zealand43.243.22.30

Transit providers

5 upstream, 5 downstream and 14 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS9790Two Degrees Networks Limited750
AS45177Devoli464
AS24482SG.GS20
AS64073Vetta Group20
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC10

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 8 prefixes · 37.38K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
NZNew Zealand9

Registry

Allocation record

APNIC · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
APNIC
Handle
AS17492
Registry name
VECTOR-COMMUNICATIONS-AS
Registrant
Vector Communications Ltd
Abuse contact
noc@vector.co.nz
Registered
2008-09-04
Last changed
2020-10-19
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
90% valid · 18 valid, 2 with no ROA
ROAs
18 authorising AS17492
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 20 of 20 announcements
Route objects
39 naming AS17492

Reputation

Classification and threat

Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.

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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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

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