Autonomous system
AS9433 MASSEY-AS Massey University
Education APNIC
Summary
Massey University
education university research legacy
AS9433 (MASSEY-AS) is held by Massey University, a New Zealand university with campuses in Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland. This is its campus autonomous system, carrying university systems and users across those sites.
What it's used for
The AS originates 8 IPv4 prefixes totalling 65,536 addresses — and every one of them is a piece of 130.123.0.0/16, a single legacy university block. The /16 is announced whole, then again as a /18, two /19s, a /22 and three /23s: the internal deaggregation of a multi-campus institution steering particular ranges rather than a network with a varied address portfolio. IPv6 is present and properly deployed, with 2001:4530::/32 announced alongside three /48s carved from it. Reverse DNS confirms the space is the university's own and even reveals its geography: wel-dp2.massey.ac.nz (Wellington), tur-nas2-cl.massey.ac.nz (Turitea, the main Palmerston North campus) and workstation-style names like it069914.massey.ac.nz. Five observed BGP neighbours against 65k addresses is firmly in institutional territory — a network that buys connectivity for its own users and sells none.
Notable
- The entire IPv4 footprint is
130.123.0.0/16; the address count is high because of that one legacy allocation, not because the network is large in any operational sense. - rDNS hostnames are site-prefixed (
wel-,tur-), reflecting Massey's distributed multi-campus structure. - IPv6 is deployed from a
/32with per-site /48s, which is more complete IPv6 adoption than many commercial networks of comparable size manage.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand Internet Exchange Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 43.243.21.47 |
| Wellington Internet Exchange | Wellington, New Zealand | 202.7.0.44 |
| Hamilton Internet Exchange | Hamilton, New Zealand | 2001:7fa:3:ca07::2c |
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 · 65.54K addresses IPv6 15 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NZ | New Zealand | 31 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9433- Registry name
- MASSEY-AS
- Registrant
- Massey University
- Abuse contact
- abuse@massey.ac.nz
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2024-09-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 12 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 12 authorising AS9433
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 12 of 12 announcements
- Route objects
- 24 naming AS9433
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: 436 networks and 1,771 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