Autonomous system
AS9431 AKUNI-NZ The University of Auckland
Education APNIC
Summary
The University of Auckland
education university research legacy
AS9431 (AKUNI-NZ) is held by The University of Auckland, New Zealand's largest university. It is the university's campus autonomous system, carrying staff, students, halls and research systems across its Auckland sites.
What it's used for
This is a single-institution campus network and the routing view is compact and consistent with that. The AS originates just 3 IPv4 prefixes — the legacy 130.216.0.0/16 plus two small New Zealand blocks, 202.36.244.0/24 and 202.37.88.0/24 — for a total of 66,048 addresses, and 2 IPv6 prefixes (2001:df0::/48, 2404:138:4004::/48). Almost the entire address footprint is that one /16, a classful-era allocation of the sort universities received when they were among the first organisations on the internet in their country. The sampled reverse DNS resolves under auckland.ac.nz (for example sql12witprd01.uoa.auckland.ac.nz, an internally-named production server), confirming the space is used by the university itself rather than delegated to third parties. The decisive number is the neighbour count: 1. The whole network sits behind a single observed upstream, which is exactly the shape of a university connected through a national research and education network rather than buying commercial transit from several carriers.
Notable
130.216.0.0/16accounts for effectively all of the announced address space — a legacy university /16.- A single observed BGP neighbour means no peering fabric of its own; this network only consumes connectivity.
- Reverse DNS under
auckland.ac.nznames internal university systems, not customer or hosting space.
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 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS38022 | REANNZ National Research and Education Network | 257 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 66.05K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9431- Registry name
- AKUNI-NZ
- Registrant
- The University of Auckland
- Abuse contact
- connectnetworkingservices@auckland.ac.nz
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-05-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 20% valid · 1 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS9431
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS9431
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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