Autonomous system
AS9268 OVERTHEWIRE-AS-AP Over The Wire Pty Ltd
Hosting APNIC NSP
Summary
Over the Wire (Aussie Broadband)
isp hosting enterprise legacy
AS9268 (OVERTHEWIRE-AS-AP) is held by Over the Wire Pty Ltd, a Brisbane-founded business telecommunications, voice, cloud and managed-IT provider. Over the Wire Holdings was acquired by Aussie Broadband in 2022, so the AS now sits inside the Aussie Broadband group while continuing to operate under its own name.
What it's used for
The network is small but well-connected: roughly 23–27 IPv4 prefixes totalling about 7,680 addresses, a single IPv6 /48 (2406:c500:ffd2::/48), and around 34 observed BGP neighbours. That ratio is the signature of a business-grade ISP rather than an eyeball network. Only 7,680 addresses would be nothing for a residential operator, but the peering breadth shows a network that terminates a lot of customer circuits and peers actively in the Australian exchanges. The address space itself is fragmented across 202.174.32.0/20 plus a long tail of /24s and /23s drawn from several different blocks (103.x, 203.x), which is what accumulates when a provider assigns a /24 per corporate customer and picks up further space over time.
Notable
- Sampled reverse DNS shows generic infrastructure PTRs under
otw.net.aualongside customer-specific names such as a mail host in an Australian company's own domain, consistent with hosted and managed services for business customers. - Over the Wire's product mix was voice/SIP, data networking, cloud and security for business, enterprise, government and wholesale customers, not consumer broadband.
- Aussie Broadband's own eyeball network is a separate AS; card the one in front of you, and this one is the business/managed-services side of the group.
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 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Coresite - Any2 West | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.77 |
| Any2 California | Los Angeles, United States | 206.72.211.77 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.178 |
| IX Australia (Sydney NSW) | Sydney, Australia | 2001:7fa:11:4:0:2434:0:1 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 16 prefixes · 7.68K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9268- Registry name
- OVERTHEWIRE-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Over the Wire Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- noc@overthewire.com.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-08-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Over The Wire
- Also known as
- OTW
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Asia Pacific
- Traffic ratio
- Balanced
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-9268ARCSTAR- Facilities
- 32 facilities
- Website
- http://overthewire.com.au
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
- 88% valid · 21 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 73 authorising AS9268
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 96% registered · 23 of 24 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 316 naming AS9268
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: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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