Autonomous system
AS7645 DEAKINUNIVERSITY-AS-AP Deakin University
Education APNIC
Summary
Deakin University
education university research legacy
DEAKINUNIVERSITY-AS-AP is Deakin University, a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with campuses in Geelong, Melbourne's Burwood and Warrnambool. AS7645 is its campus network, registered to the university's Information Technology Services division.
What it's used for
- Campus connectivity for students, staff and researchers. The AS announces two full legacy Class B blocks,
128.184.0.0/16and139.132.0.0/16, for about 131,000 IPv4 addresses, plus2402:6940::/32in IPv6. - Reverse DNS is institutional throughout, with campus DHCP ranges named like
IP-ADDR.dhcp.deakin.edu.au. There is no subscriber, hosting or commercial addressing anywhere in the inventory.
Notable
- University address space. Traffic from here is a student on campus Wi-Fi, a staff desktop, or a lab or research machine, not a home broadband user and not a datacentre.
- Like other Australian universities, Deakin sits behind AARNet, the national academic and research network, rather than a commercial carrier.
Interesting
- Holding two entire
/16s is a mark of an early allocation. Deakin took its address space when Class B blocks were still handed out to universities on request, and it kept both, which is why a mid-sized Australian university has more addresses than many national ISPs of the same era.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS7575 | Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) | 200 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 131K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS7645- Registry name
- DEAKINUNIVERSITY-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Deakin University
- Abuse contact
- apnic-support@deakin.edu.au
- Registered
- 2023-11-24
- Last changed
- 2023-11-24
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 46 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS7645
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 46 of 46 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,025 naming AS7645
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 2026-10-17. 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