Autonomous system
AS9348 SLVTSD-CBN-AP - Victorian Cultural Network
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
State Library Victoria (Vicnet)
government education legacy
AS9348 (SLVTSD-CBN-AP) is registered as the Victorian Cultural Network and belongs to State Library Victoria. The name traces back to Vicnet, the library's networking unit: a joint State Library and RMIT project that from the mid-1990s acted as an Internet host and web-publishing service for Victorian community organisations, public libraries and community language groups. The State Library closed Vicnet in 2014, but the AS number and its address block remain with the library.
What it's used for
The routing evidence is that of a single institution, not a provider. RIS observes exactly one IPv4 prefix — 136.154.0.0/16, 65,536 addresses — with no announced IPv6 and one BGP neighbour. A single legacy /16 behind a single upstream is an end-site network: there is no peering fabric, no deaggregation into customer blocks, no second transit for resilience. The /16 itself is a relic of the era when a public institution running an early community ISP could be given an enormous allocation; a body of this size applying today would receive a tiny fraction of it. What the space carries now is not visible from the routing alone, and the reverse-DNS sample returned nothing to build on, so this card does not speculate about current utilisation.
Notable
- Vicnet was, at its peak, Australia's largest web host for community organisations, and ran digital-inclusion programmes including services for dozens of community language groups.
- The AS is the library's, not a government-wide network: State Library Victoria is a public cultural institution and this is its own address space.
- One prefix, one neighbour, no IPv6 — a dormant-looking footprint compared with the
/16it holds.
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 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS7575 | Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) | 62 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-06, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 65.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9348- Registry name
- SLVTSD-CBN-AP
- Registrant
- State Library of Victoria
- Abuse contact
- gduff@slv.vic.gov.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2022-04-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS9348
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS9348
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: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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