AS9714 VOCUS-CLOUD-SERVICES-AS Vocus Cloud Services Australia

AS9714 (VOCUS-CLOUD-SERVICES-AS) is held by Vocus, the Australian fibre and network operator headquartered in Melbourne. It is one of the group's downstream ASNs rather than its backbone: Vocus carries international transit on a separate AS, and this one holds hosting and static-assignment space.

What it's used for

RIS sees 10 IPv4 prefixes carrying 14,592 addresses, 7 IPv6 prefixes, and only 1 observed neighbour. The single neighbour is the tell that this is an internal AS of a larger group, taking all its connectivity from the parent backbone rather than peering in its own right, so its neighbour count says nothing about Vocus's overall reach. Reverse DNS is well populated and consistent: addresses across 116.240.192.0/20, 202.141.208.0/20 and 210.50.192.0/21 resolve as <dashed-ip>.static.vocuscloud.com.au, and 49.255.28.0/22 resolves under sta.ip.vocus.au. Those are static-assignment naming conventions, which fits a mix of hosted services and business customers with fixed addresses. The IPv6 side is real, not decorative: four /40s and several /48s out of 2407:dc00::/32, a Vocus allocation.

Notable

• Vocus sells fibre, broadband, voice and network services to businesses and government in Australia, and its consumer-facing brands sit elsewhere in the group.
• The legacy 210.50.0.0 and 202.x blocks here are old Australian address space, consistent with an AS that has absorbed inventory from earlier operators.

Interesting

Two of the /24s resolve under other operators' domains entirely: 202.138.0.5 is mel-switch.vic.hotkey.net.au and 203.213.51.x resolves under tpgi.com.au. That is a clean illustration of the rule that reverse DNS shows what a range carries and where it came from, never who holds the AS today.