Summary

A card in the register, a dark panel in the route room

The daily change is as plain as a rubber stamp. On 3 November’s APNIC sheet, 192.68.110.0/23 sits in available stock with no country or holder. On 4 November’s sheet, the same 512 addresses are allocated, coded VU, and carry holder A91E8525. Nothing was split off. APNIC changed the status of the whole interval.

The live registry gives the allocation a human-readable destination. Its exact IP object covers 192.68.110.0–192.68.111.255, calls the network VUTELECOM-VU, and points to ORG-TVL1-AP, Telecom Vanuatu Limited. Registration is timestamped 2026-11-03T00:26:21Z; the last change is 25 seconds later. These are unusually crisp public handles for an allocation that a reader might otherwise know only by an opaque holder code.

Then the second clock refuses to play along. RIPE NCC’s RIS query for the exact /23 at midnight UTC on 4 November has a simple visibility fraction: 0/323. The endpoint also carries a much older memory: it first saw the exact route on 15 February 2012 and last saw it on 13 March 2024. The 966-day gap is measured from that last RIS sighting to the 4 November snapshot. An allocation newly visible in APNIC’s daily file is therefore attached to a prefix with an old routing history and no route at this observation point.

That is a useful distinction for a registry, a network team and anyone trying to attach a network address to a responsible institution. APNIC’s allocation says who has the current resource registration. RIS says what its full-table peers observed in BGP at one scheduled moment. Neither clock supplies the other clock’s missing hand.

A network might announce later, through a different or more specific route, or in places outside this collector set; the present public evidence gives a dated registration and a dated RIS silence.

The same company appeared in an earlier BTW story on two APNIC IXP-purpose prefixes: 163.61.162.64/26 and 2001:de9:2000::/48. This /23 is a different resource and a different allocation. The IXP pair raised the question of which exchange was served. Here the question is when an ordinary 512-address block, already seen in BGP years ago, will have an observable operational life under its current registration.

An APNIC resource-action record would establish why the old available range was allocated now. A dated operator announcement or later RIS snapshot would establish its activation. Until then, the honest ledger has two entries: Telecom Vanuatu holds the exact /23 in APNIC, and RIS’s 4 November panel remained dark.