Autonomous system
AS9245 COMPASS-NZ-AP COMPASS
Residential APNIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Compass Communications
isp residential legacy
AS9245 (COMPASS-NZ-AP) is held by Compass Communications, a New Zealand telecommunications and internet service provider. Compass is an independent, locally owned operator selling fibre broadband, voice and business connectivity across New Zealand.
What it's used for
The reverse DNS is unusually clean and settles the role immediately. Almost every sampled address resolves under compassnet.co.nz, and the pattern splits into two kinds: a core router (ccore-terapa-r1.hn.compassnet.co.nz) and a wall of formulaic customer addresses in the shape 5.host-203-152-112.compassnet.co.nz. Templated per-address host names across every announced block is what an access network does when it auto-generates PTRs for subscriber space. There is no hosting or enterprise-tenant naming here at all.
The routing fits. RIS sees 12 IPv4 prefixes carrying 25,600 addresses and one IPv6 allocation, 2405:8400::/32, against 8 observed neighbours. A wholesale carrier holding 25,000 addresses would be peering with hundreds of networks; eight neighbours means Compass buys transit and peers locally, and spends its address space on its own customers rather than carrying anyone else's routes. The estate is a mix of two /19s and a handful of /22s and /24s drawn from several APNIC ranges, which is the normal accretion pattern for a provider that has picked up allocations over time.
Notable
- Compass describes itself as one of the longer-established independent telcos in New Zealand and has grown partly by acquiring other providers' broadband bases.
- Some of the announced ranges sit in blocks that look regionally unrelated to New Zealand, but the uniform
compassnet.co.nzPTRs across all of them show they are in live use on the same network.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Internet Exchange Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 43.243.21.90 |
| MegaPort-IX Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 43.243.22.110 |
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 11 prefixes · 25.60K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9245- Registry name
- COMPASS-NZ-AP
- Registrant
- Compass Communications Ltd
- Abuse contact
- noc@compass.net.nz
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-05-19
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Compass Communications Ltd
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 4 facilities
- Website
- http://www.compass.net.nz
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
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 13 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9245
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 13 of 13 announcements
- Route objects
- 27 naming AS9245
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: 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