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Autonomous system

AS37979 TPN-AS-AP ThePacific.Net Ltd

Residential APNIC

IPv4 addresses 2.05K 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly NZ
Exchanges 1 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

ThePacific.Net

New Zealand · AI-generated

residential isp fiber nelson

The AS handle TPN-AS-AP is held by ThePacific.Net Ltd.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries residential broadband traffic, evidenced by the reverse DNS record 218-185-229-254-static.broadband.tpnet.co.nz and the netname THEPACIFICNET.
  • The network announces 2048 IPv4 addresses across 1 prefix with 1 observed neighbour, a ratio indicative of an access network rather than a transit provider.
  • Traffic consists of subscriber eyeballs for residential fibre and DSL services in the Nelson region of New Zealand.

Notable

  • The registrant ThePacific.Net Ltd matches the AS holder, with the IRT contact IRT-TPN-NZ confirming ownership.
  • ThePacific.Net provisioned New Zealand's first residential fibre estate in 2008 and expanded to DSL services in 2010.
  • The inventory consists of a single contiguous /21 block, 218.185.224.0/21.

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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
Edge Internet Exchange - AucklandAuckland, New Zealand103.180.190.54

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS55850Mercury NZ Limited59

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-19, 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 1 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
NZNew Zealand1

Registry

Allocation record

APNIC · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
APNIC
Handle
AS37979
Registry name
TPN-AS-AP
Registrant
ThePacific.Net Ltd
Abuse contact
support@tpnet.co.nz
Registered
2008-09-04
Last changed
2020-07-07
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
1 authorising AS37979
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
Route objects
2 naming AS37979

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: 442 networks and 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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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