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Autonomous system

AS17705 INSPIRENET-AS-AP InSPire Net Ltd

Unclassified APNIC

IPv4 addresses 38.66K 20 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly NZ
Exchanges 5 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 5 6 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

InSPire Net

New Zealand · AI-generated

residential dsl isp new-zealand

INSPIRENET-AS-AP is operated by InSPire Net Ltd.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries residential broadband traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as 121-79-215-254.dsl.sta.inspire.net.nz and 122-252-157-254.dyn.inspire.net.nz.
  • The AS announces 38400 IPv4 addresses across 19 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 15 observed neighbours; this ratio of high address volume to moderate peering indicates an access network serving end-users.

Notable

  • All registrants in the RDAP data align with the announcer, consistently listing InSPire Net Ltd and IRTs IRT-INSPIRE-NZ or IRT-INSPIRENET-AP.
  • The inventory consists of finely subdivided blocks, including multiple /24s and /23s alongside larger /19s, reflecting a segmented internal estate for a regional ISP.

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 5 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
Equinix Internet Exchange SydneySydney, Australia45.127.172.135
IX Australia (Sydney NSW)Sydney, Australia218.100.52.210
New Zealand Internet Exchange AucklandAuckland, New Zealand43.243.21.9
MegaPort-IX AucklandAuckland, New Zealand43.243.22.47
Edge Internet Exchange - AucklandAuckland, New Zealand103.180.190.21

Transit providers

5 upstream, 6 downstream and 16 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS9790Two Degrees Networks Limited1,297
AS55850Mercury NZ Limited531
AS6939Hurricane Electric LLC36
AS64073Vetta Group32
AS35280F5 Networks SARL3

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, 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 20 prefixes · 38.66K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
NZNew Zealand21

Registry

Allocation record

APNIC · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
APNIC
Handle
AS17705
Registry name
INSPIRENET-AS-AP
Registrant
InSPire Net Ltd
Abuse contact
abuse@inspire.net.nz
Registered
2008-09-04
Last changed
2020-06-22
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
94% valid · 30 valid, 2 with no ROA
ROAs
18 authorising AS17705
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 32 of 32 announcements
Route objects
208 naming AS17705

Reputation

Classification and threat

Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.

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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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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