Autonomous system
AS9249 VUTELECOM-AS01-VU-AP Telecom Vanuatu Limited
Residential ARIN
Summary
Telecom Vanuatu Limited (Vodafone Vanuatu)
isp residential mobile legacy
AS9249 (VUTELECOM-AS01-VU-AP) is held by Telecom Vanuatu Limited (TVL), one of the two national telecommunications operators in Vanuatu. TVL provides fixed line, mobile and internet service across the archipelago and now trades under the Vodafone brand as Vodafone Vanuatu, following its acquisition by the Amalgamated Telecom Holdings group.
What it's used for
This is a small-island national operator's eyeball network, and the reverse DNS shows it directly. Sampled addresses resolve to dsl1-modem5.tvl.vu and dsl2-modem5.tvl.vu — literally DSL modem naming — and to du-005.vanuatu.com.vu and du1-4.vanuatu.com.vu under the operator's other domain. Per-modem PTRs are about as unambiguous a subscriber-access signature as exists.
RIS sees 31 IPv4 prefixes carrying 6,656 addresses, no IPv6, and 2 observed neighbours. The address total is modest, which is appropriate for a country of Vanuatu's size, but the prefix count is high relative to it: a 202.80.32.0/20 and a 113.11.240.0/21 are announced alongside almost every /23 and /24 inside them. Deaggregating a small estate this thoroughly usually means traffic engineering across a constrained set of upstreams — with only two neighbours, splitting the announcements is one of the few levers available for steering inbound traffic. The absence of any IPv6 announcement is notable for a national operator.
Notable
- TVL retains the
tvl.vuandvanuatu.com.vudomains in its live network naming even after the Vodafone rebrand. - Vanuatu is served by submarine cable and satellite backhaul, and the two-neighbour count reflects how few upstream options a network in that position has.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vanuatu Internet Exchange | Port Vila, Vanuatu | 103.25.228.17 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 7 prefixes · 6.40K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| VU | Vanuatu | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS9249- Registry name
- VUTELECOM-AS01-VU-AP
- Registrant
- Telecom Vanuatu Limited
- Abuse contact
- adminsupport@vodafone.com.vu
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 87% valid · 27 valid, 2 with no ROA 2 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS9249
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 97% registered · 30 of 31 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 47 naming AS9249
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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