Autonomous system
AS9517 CATHEDBNE-AS-AP - Brisbane Catholic Education
Education APNIC
Summary
Brisbane Catholic Education
education enterprise legacy
AS9517 (CATHEDBNE-AS-AP) is held by Brisbane Catholic Education, the schooling authority for the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane. It runs the shared network for the Archdiocese's schools across south-east Queensland.
What it's used for
This is a K–12 school-system network, not a service provider. RIS sees 4 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,536 addresses, no IPv6, and a single BGP neighbour — one upstream, no peering. The address count is small because the schools themselves sit behind the network's edge; the routed space is what needs to be publicly reachable (edge firewalls, remote-access concentrators, published services), not a per-seat allocation for tens of thousands of students. A sampled PTR in 203.189.3.0/24 resolves to a VPN endpoint on a qld.edu.au school domain, which is exactly what you would expect: the AS terminates remote access for individual member schools out of a centrally-held block.
The holdings are a mix of eras — a legacy 203.189.3.0/24 alongside newer APNIC space (103.24.208.0/23, 103.55.114.0/23, 45.115.116.0/24) picked up as the system grew.
Notable
- Brisbane Catholic Education operates on the order of 140+ schools and offices across Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts and Ipswich; this AS is the routing identity for that whole federation, which is why one modest AS fronts a very large user population.
- One upstream and no peers: a pure transit customer. The network's design intent is centralised connectivity and security policy for member schools, not internet-facing scale.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AS24436 | University of Queensland | 248 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.54K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9517- Registry name
- CATHEDBNE-AS-AP
- Registrant
- The Corporation of the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Archdi
- Abuse contact
- ictsupport@bne.catholic.edu.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-05-19
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS9517
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 4 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS9517
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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