Autonomous system
AS9652 ECN-AS-AP ECN Internet
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
ECN Internet (ECN Pty Ltd)
isp hosting enterprise legacy
AS9652 (ECN-AS-AP) is held by ECN Pty Ltd, trading as ECN Internet — an Australian ISP based in Indooroopilly, Brisbane, that dates back to the mid-1990s and now sells NBN and data-network services along with data-centre space. It is PeeringDB-listed with an open peering policy and an Australia-wide scope.
What it's used for
The inventory says "business ISP" more clearly than the marketing does. RIS sees 148 IPv4 prefixes carrying only 28,672 addresses, plus 11 IPv6 prefixes out of the 2400:6880::/32 range, behind 12 observed neighbours. Averaging under 200 addresses per announced prefix is the tell: this network is heavily deaggregated into /23s and /24s, which is what happens when customers hold their own small blocks and each one is announced separately rather than being folded into an access-pool aggregate.
The reverse DNS shows both sides of the business. dial-203-201-159-5.ecn.net.au is a legacy access pool named in ECN's own domain, while ave1.rungeict.com is a customer's domain living in ECN space — a corporate tenant, not an eyeball. Twelve neighbours is too few for a transit carrier and the address count is far too small for a mass-market eyeball network, so the sensible reading is a regional provider selling connectivity and hosting to Australian businesses, with a residual retail tail.
Notable
- 148 IPv4 prefixes over 28,672 addresses is an unusually fine-grained announcement pattern, driven by per-customer blocks.
- Customer-owned domains appearing in the reverse DNS show what the space carries; they say nothing about who holds it.
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 | 103.26.68.125 |
| Megaport IX Melbourne | Melbourne, Australia | 103.26.71.124 |
| Megaport IX Brisbane | Brisbane, Australia | 103.26.70.61 |
| IX Australia (Brisbane QLD) | Brisbane, Australia | 218.100.76.21 |
| Megaport IX Perth | Perth, Australia | 202.12.243.21 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 2 downstream and 14 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 2026-10-26, 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 · 28.67K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AU | Australia | 17 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9652- Registry name
- ECN-AS-AP
- Registrant
- ECN Pty Ltd
- Abuse contact
- network@ecn.net.au
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 97% valid · 155 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 60 authorising AS9652
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 159 of 159 announcements
- Route objects
- 371 naming AS9652
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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