Autonomous system
AS9342 ABC-AS-AP Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
enterprise legacy
AS9342 (ABC-AS-AP) is held by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's national public broadcaster. This is a broadcaster's own corporate and production network — an end-site AS, not a service provider.
What it's used for
Everything in the evidence says enterprise self-hosting. RIS observes 8 IPv4 prefixes carrying about 131,584 addresses, no announced IPv6, and 9 BGP neighbours. The inventory is dominated by two legacy /16s, 144.218.0.0/16 and 169.201.0.0/16, with a set of /21s announced as more-specifics of the first and two small /24s (202.6.74.0/24, 203.2.218.0/24) that look like the organisation's older APNIC-era space. Two /16s is a lot of address space by modern standards, but it is held by one organisation for one organisation's use: nine neighbours is a handful of upstreams and peerings, which is what a large enterprise buys for resilience, not the fabric a transit or eyeball network would build. The more-specific /21s inside 144.218.0.0/16 are the usual sign of an internal network split across sites or announced separately for traffic engineering. Sampled reverse DNS lands on servermail01.abc.net.au, an ABC-operated mail server — a direct positive confirmation that the holder actually runs the space.
Notable
- The ABC operates broadcast, production and online services nationally; this AS carries the corporation's own infrastructure and staff networks.
- The two
/16s are legacy allocations, far larger than a comparable organisation would receive today. - No IPv6 is announced at all.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.70 |
| IX Australia (Sydney NSW) | Sydney, Australia | 218.100.52.54 |
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 · 132K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 7 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9342- Registry name
- ABC-AS-AP
- Registrant
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Abuse contact
- ecd.manager@abc.net.au
- Registered
- 2023-06-06
- Last changed
- 2023-06-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS9342
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 8 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 516 naming AS9342
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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 1,772 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