AS9650 — CITEC-AU-AP QLD Government Business IT

AS9650 announces 34 IPv4 prefixes covering 226,560 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

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.

Announced prefixes

• 45.64.68.0/22
• 103.118.12.0/22
• 103.233.236.0/22
• 131.242.0.0/16
• 147.132.0.0/16
• 161.143.0.0/16
• 164.112.80.0/24
• 164.112.116.0/24
• 164.112.246.0/23
• 164.112.249.0/24
• 164.112.253.0/24
• 165.86.64.0/23
• 165.86.70.0/24
• 165.86.80.0/24
• 167.123.240.0/23
• 167.123.248.0/24
• 192.88.7.0/24
• 203.5.10.0/24
• 203.8.128.0/19
• 203.9.184.0/22
• 203.10.121.0/24
• 203.15.124.0/22
• 203.15.168.0/23
• 203.18.108.0/23
• 203.21.12.0/24
• 203.22.80.0/23
• 203.25.0.0/20
• 203.25.141.0/24
• 203.27.98.0/24
• 203.28.188.0/23
• 203.56.118.0/24
• 203.56.182.0/24
• 203.62.216.0/22
• 203.104.0.0/20
• 2406:3c00::/32

Upstream networks

• AS137409 GSL Networks Pty LTD
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS4826 Vocus Connect International Backbone
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS64073 Vetta Group
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL

Downstream networks

• AS63983 Queensland Health
• AS135396 TAFE Queensland

Adjacent networks

• AS137409 GSL Networks Pty LTD
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS4826 Vocus Connect International Backbone
• AS63983 Queensland Health
• AS135396 TAFE Queensland
• AS64073 Vetta Group
• AS24482 SG.GS
• AS4608 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
• AS35280 F5 Networks SARL

Internet exchanges

• Megaport IX Sydney — Sydney, Australia
• Equinix Internet Exchange Sydney — Sydney, Australia
• Edge Internet Exchange - Sydney — Sydney, Australia
• Megaport IX Brisbane — Brisbane, Australia
• IX Australia (Brisbane QLD) — Brisbane, Australia