AS9942 — COMINDICO-AP - SOUL Converged Communications Australia

AS9942 announces 36 IPv4 prefixes covering 15,104 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

AS9942 (COMINDICO-AP) is registered as SOUL Converged Communications Australia and is maintained today by TPG Internet Pty Ltd (MAINT-AU-TPGCOM). The handle, the registered name and the current maintainer are three different companies, and all three are still visible in the network — this is one of the clearest examples in the AS range of an inherited network that never got renamed.

What it's used for

The reverse DNS reads like a corporate archaeology dig. Sampled addresses resolve under comindico.com.au (fe2-0-201.wsr03-kent-syd, acc05-dryb-mel — Sydney and Melbourne access routers), under soulaustralia.com.au, under sptel.com.au, and under tpgi.com.au for the subscriber-style names such as 203-194-0-5.static.tpgi.com.au. Those are four ownership generations of the same Australian carrier estate, all still answering in the same routed space.

RIS sees 24 IPv4 prefixes covering 176,640 addresses, anchored on 203.220.0.0/15 plus 203.194.0.0/18, 202.168.0.0/18 and the 125.254.0.0/19. One IPv6 prefix, 2404:2800::/32, is announced. The mix of static.tpgi.com.au and unassigned. PTRs is an access-network pattern: pools of customer addresses, some allocated statically, some idle. Only 2 observed neighbours, which is the giveaway that this is no longer an independent carrier — it takes transit from inside the TPG group rather than peering on its own account.

Notable

• comindico was an Australian wholesale carrier whose network passed to the Soul brand and then into TPG; the ASN survived every step.
• The wsr/acc/isd router names in the PTRs are the original comindico backbone naming scheme, still in service.

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

Announced prefixes

• 125.254.5.0/24
• 125.254.7.0/24
• 125.254.13.0/24
• 125.254.21.0/24
• 125.254.23.0/24
• 125.254.25.0/24
• 202.168.52.0/22
• 203.77.179.0/24
• 203.194.1.0/24
• 203.194.14.0/24
• 203.194.22.0/23
• 203.194.25.0/24
• 203.194.27.0/24
• 203.194.28.0/23
• 203.194.30.0/24
• 203.194.32.0/24
• 203.194.56.0/22
• 203.220.11.0/24
• 203.220.19.0/24
• 203.220.46.0/24
• 203.220.50.0/24
• 203.220.79.0/24
• 203.220.112.0/23
• 203.220.114.0/24
• 203.220.236.0/22
• 203.220.240.0/21
• 203.220.248.0/22
• 203.220.252.0/23
• 203.221.0.0/24
• 203.221.11.0/24
• 203.221.37.0/24
• 203.221.40.0/24
• 203.221.50.0/24
• 203.221.158.0/24
• 203.221.163.0/24
• 203.221.184.0/24
• 2404:2800::/32

Upstream networks

• AS2764 AAPT Limited
• AS7545 TPG Telecom Limited

Downstream networks

• AS17668 Soul Pattinson Telecommunications Pty Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS2764 AAPT Limited
• AS17668 Soul Pattinson Telecommunications Pty Ltd
• AS7545 TPG Telecom Limited

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 46 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 7% of announcements registered; 78 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-9942ARCSTAR, AS-OPTUS, AS-PNW-GIGAPOP-PEERS, AS-TPG, AS-XO-B, AS1221:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS13335:AS-CUSTOMERS, AS2764:AS-BGP-CUSTS, AS2764:AS-CUSTOMERS:AS7545, AS2764:AS-CUSTOMERS:AS7606, AS2764:AS-TRANSIT:AS7545, AS2764:AS-TRANSIT:AS7606, AS37271:AS-TEST-CF, AS7545:AS-CUSTOMERS.