Autonomous system
AS9650 CITEC-AU-AP QLD Government Business IT
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
CITEC (Queensland Government)
government hosting legacy
AS9650 (CITEC-AU-AP) is held by CITEC, the Queensland Government's own ICT service provider, registered as "QLD Government Business (IT)". CITEC is not a department in its own right so much as the shared-services arm that runs data centres, hosting, managed services and the Queensland Government Network for state agencies out of Brisbane.
What it's used for
This is a whole-of-government service network, and the routing reflects that scale. RIS sees 64 IPv4 prefixes totalling 226,816 addresses plus an IPv6 /32 (2406:3c00::/32), announced through 13 observed neighbours. Thirteen neighbours against nearly a quarter of a million addresses is the signature of a large consumer of transit, not a seller of it: CITEC buys connectivity from Australian carriers and distributes it internally rather than peering broadly the way a wholesale ISP would.
The address inventory is a mix of large legacy holdings — three whole /16s (131.242.0.0/16, 161.143.0.0/16, 147.132.0.0/16) — and many smaller APNIC-era blocks (203.x, 103.x, 45.64.68.0/22) accumulated as agencies came aboard. Sampled reverse DNS lands on qimagery.information.qld.gov.au and *.treasury.qld.gov.au, i.e. distinct state-government agencies living inside the same address space. That is exactly what a shared government hosting platform looks like: one AS, many agency tenants, all under qld.gov.au.
Notable
- The prefixes belong to the state government collectively; individual agencies (Treasury among them) sit inside CITEC's space rather than running networks of their own.
- The three /16s are pre-APNIC-era assignments, which is why the inventory looks unusually large for a single sub-national government.
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 5 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Megaport IX Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 103.26.68.61 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 45.127.172.30 |
| Edge Internet Exchange - Sydney | Sydney, Australia | 202.77.88.47 |
| Megaport IX Brisbane | Brisbane, Australia | 103.26.70.90 |
| IX Australia (Brisbane QLD) | Brisbane, Australia | 218.100.76.116 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 2 downstream and 13 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-12, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 75 prefixes · 227K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 76 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9650- Registry name
- CITEC-AU-AP
- Registrant
- CITEC
- Abuse contact
- apnic@citec.com.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2025-03-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 52% valid · 34 valid, 32 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 35 authorising AS9650
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 66 of 66 announcements
- Route objects
- 88 naming AS9650
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: 436 networks and 1,769 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