Autonomous system
AS23871 AINS-AS-AP Australia Internet Solutions
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Australia Internet Solutions
business australia ipv6
The AS handle AINS-AS-AP is held by Australia Internet Solutions.
What it's used for
- The address space is registered under the netname
AINSandAINS-AU, with reverse DNS pointing toains.net.au. - The network announces 13,824 IPv4 addresses across 31 prefixes and 17 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining only 10 observed neighbours. This high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- All registrants in the evidence pack are consistent, listing
Australia Internet Solutions Pty Ltdunder the IRTIRT-AINS-AU. - The inventory consists of a mix of /22, /23, and /24 IPv4 blocks, alongside a large contiguous IPv6 allocation starting with
2406:1600::/39.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.110 |
| Megaport IX Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 103.26.71.55 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 10 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
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
IPv4 31 prefixes · 13.82K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 48 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS23871- Registry name
- AINS-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Australia Internet Solutions Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- swong@office.ains.com.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-01-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Australia Internet Solutions
- Also known as
- AINS
- Scope
- Australia
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://ains.com.au/
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 74% valid · 40 valid, 14 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 38 authorising AS23871
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 53 of 54 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 145 naming AS23871
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: 431 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