Autonomous system
AS9432 CANTERBURY-AS-AP University of Canterbury
Education APNIC
Summary
University of Canterbury
education university research legacy
AS9432 (CANTERBURY-AS-AP) is held by the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the university's own campus autonomous system — this is the New Zealand university, not the English city's Christ Church institution, a collision the handle alone would not resolve.
What it's used for
A campus network, and a tidy one. The AS originates 6 IPv4 prefixes totalling 41,472 addresses. Five of them are slices of a single legacy block, 132.181.0.0/16 — announced as a /18 and three /19s rather than as one aggregate, which is how a campus splits its space across faculties, residences and data-centre ranges — alongside two small New Zealand /24s, 202.36.178.0/24 and 202.36.179.0/24. On the IPv6 side it announces one large prefix, 2404:6a00::/32. Only 1 BGP neighbour is observed: the entire university reaches the internet through a single upstream, which is the standard arrangement for an institution served by a national research and education network. There is no sign of transit resale, hosting or subscriber space anywhere in the inventory.
Notable
- The sampled reverse DNS returns
webapps.cce.ac.nzinside132.181.128.0/19.cce.ac.nzis the domain of the former Christchurch College of Education, which merged into the University of Canterbury on 1 January 2007 to form its Faculty of Education. The old domain still lives inside the university's address space. - The IPv4 footprint is essentially one legacy /16, deaggregated internally; the IPv6 footprint is a single /32.
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.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, 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 · 41.47K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9432- Registry name
- CANTERBURY-AS-AP
- Registrant
- University of Canterbury
- Abuse contact
- internet@canterbury.ac.nz
- Registered
- 2024-05-03
- Last changed
- 2024-05-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 7 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS9432
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 7 of 7 announcements
- Route objects
- 20 naming AS9432
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 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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