Autonomous system
AS4851 HOSTNETWORKS-AS-AU-AP Host Networks
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Host Networks
hosting legacy
HOSTNETWORKS-AS-AU-AP belongs to Host Networks, a Brisbane-based Australian hosting company offering colocation, cloud VPS and dedicated servers.
What it's used for
- Serving customer workloads: colocation, virtual private servers, dedicated hardware and the connectivity around them.
- Announcing the company's Australian IPv4 space (on the order of 17,000 addresses), a fairly large pool for a regional hosting provider.
Notable
- This is a hosting network, not an eyeball network: the addresses front servers and customer machines rather than home broadband subscribers.
- Registered through APNIC with a low AS number from the early 4608-4865 block, which is unusual for an Australian hosting shop of this size.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Edge Internet Exchange - Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 2001:df0:680:5::1f |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 7 downstream and 11 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS63956 | 5G NETWORK OPERATIONS PTY LTD | 850 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-28, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 14 prefixes · 17.66K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4851- Registry name
- HOSTNETWORKS-AS-AU-AP
- Registrant
- HOST NETWORKS
- Abuse contact
- noc@hostnetworks.com.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-05-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 63% valid · 10 valid, 6 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 13 authorising AS4851
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 16 of 16 announcements
- Route objects
- 128 naming AS4851
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-10-29. 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