AS9443 — VOCUS-RETAIL-AU Vocus Retail

Network type: residential

AS9443 announces 64 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,143,808 addresses and 9 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9443 (VOCUS-RETAIL-AU) is held by Vocus, the Australian telecommunications group, and carries its retail consumer and small-business customers — the Dodo, iPrimus and Commander brands. It is not Vocus's wholesale backbone: it is the eyeball network hanging off it.

What it's used for

This is one of the larger Australian access networks. The AS originates 47 IPv4 prefixes totalling 1,153,024 addresses, plus 3 IPv6 /32s (2403:4800::/32, 2403:fc00::/32, 2403:9e00::/32). The IPv4 inventory is dominated by whole /16s — 139.216, 139.218, 58.179, 111.220, 122.151, 125.168, 211.26, 112.141, 122.148, 210.50, 211.27, 58.178, 122.150, 116.240 — the large subscriber aggregates a broadband provider needs to number hundreds of thousands of home connections.

The reverse DNS is the clincher and reads like a brand inventory: sta.dodo.net.au and dyn.dodo.net.au, dsl.syd.iprimus.net.au and dsl.mel.iprimus.net.au, sta.commander.net.au, sta.wbroadband.net.au, sta.onestream.net.au, and Vocus's own ip.vocus.network. Static (sta) and dynamic (dyn) subscriber pools, city-tagged DSL names, several retail brands sharing one pool of space. And against that million-plus addresses, only 1 observed BGP neighbour — the retail AS reaches the internet through its parent group's backbone rather than peering in its own right. Big address count, no peering fabric: an eyeball network, not a carrier.

Notable

• Dodo, iPrimus and Commander are all Vocus retail brands; their subscriber space is numbered out of this single AS.
• Vocus is privately held (Macquarie Asset Management and Aware Super) and in 2025 completed the purchase of TPG's fibre network, making the group a major Australian infrastructure owner.
• The one-neighbour figure is a role signal, not a weakness: the peering happens on Vocus's backbone AS, which sits in front of this one.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 14.137.64.0/18
• 14.137.192.0/19
• 23.194.132.0/22
• 58.178.0.0/15
• 104.99.228.0/22
• 111.220.0.0/16
• 112.141.0.0/16
• 112.213.128.0/17
• 116.240.0.0/17
• 116.240.128.0/18
• 116.240.208.0/20
• 116.240.224.0/19
• 121.79.126.0/23
• 122.148.0.0/16
• 122.150.0.0/15
• 125.168.0.0/17
• 125.168.128.0/18
• 125.168.192.0/20
• 125.168.208.0/21
• 125.168.216.0/22
• 125.168.220.0/24
• 125.168.224.0/19
• 139.216.0.0/16
• 139.218.0.0/16
• 202.4.64.0/19
• 202.61.12.0/23
• 202.62.128.0/19
• 202.67.64.0/18
• 202.86.113.0/24
• 202.86.114.0/23
• 202.86.116.0/23
• 202.86.118.0/24
• 202.130.205.0/24
• 202.138.1.0/24
• 202.138.2.0/23
• 202.138.4.0/22
• 202.138.8.0/21
• 202.138.16.0/20
• 202.138.32.0/19
• 202.147.128.0/20
• 202.154.64.0/18
• 203.16.9.0/24
• 203.24.100.0/23
• 203.55.252.0/24
• 203.62.135.0/24
• 203.91.224.0/19
• 203.132.224.0/19
• 203.134.0.0/17
• 203.134.128.0/18
• 203.142.128.0/19
• 203.161.160.0/20
• 203.190.192.0/20
• 203.191.160.0/19
• 203.212.128.0/19
• 210.50.8.0/21
• 210.50.16.0/20
• 210.50.32.0/19
• 210.50.64.0/18
• 210.50.128.0/18
• 210.50.200.0/21
• 210.50.208.0/20
• 210.50.224.0/19
• 210.86.240.0/20
• 211.26.0.0/15
• 2403:4800::/35
• 2403:4800:1200::/39
• 2403:4800:1400::/38
• 2403:4800:1800::/37
• 2403:4800:2000::/35
• 2403:4800:4000::/34
• 2403:4800:8000::/33
• 2403:9e00::/32
• 2403:fc00::/32

Upstream networks

• AS4826 Vocus Connect International Backbone

Adjacent networks

• AS4826 Vocus Connect International Backbone

Internet exchanges

• IX Australia (Sydney NSW) — Sydney, Australia