Autonomous system
AS4608 APNIC-SERVICES Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
Unclassified ARIN Non-Profit
Summary
APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre)
research legacy
APNIC-SERVICES is the network of APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia-Pacific region. APNIC is the body that allocates IP addresses and AS numbers across Asia and Oceania.
What it's used for
- APNIC's own infrastructure and member-facing services: the whois/RDAP registry, MyAPNIC, RPKI, reverse-DNS servers, and APNIC Labs measurement work.
Notable
- Not an ISP or a hosting provider. The address space carries registry and research infrastructure for the region, so traffic to it is mostly lookups and routing-data services rather than end users.
- APNIC is a non-profit membership organisation; its members are the ISPs and networks it issues resources to.
Interesting
- IANA delegates the AS block 4608-4865 to APNIC, and APNIC took the very first number in that block for itself.
- Sibling registries hold similarly memorable numbers, such as AS3333 for the RIPE NCC.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.3 |
| Megaport IX Brisbane | Brisbane, Australia | 103.26.70.9 |
| IX Australia (Brisbane QLD) | Brisbane, Australia | 218.100.76.36 |
| Edge Internet Exchange - Brisbane | Brisbane, Australia | 103.136.103.23 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 104 downstream and 124 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 5 prefixes · 4.35K addresses IPv6 10 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 15 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS4608- Registry name
- APNIC-SERVICES
- Registrant
- Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
- Abuse contact
- helpdesk@apnic.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2026-08-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- APNIC
- Also known as
- Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS4608:AS-APNIC- Present at
- 4 exchanges
- Facilities
- 2 facilities
- Website
- https://www.apnic.net
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
- 100% valid · 23 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 23 authorising AS4608
- ASPA
- 3 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 57 naming AS4608
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