AAP May 2023 IP address change confirmation notice
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May 2023 IP Address Confirmation Technote
What: This is an official change notice to all AAP publishing customers that subscribe to our digital feeds and application programming interfaces.
Why: To increase performance, security and flexibility we’ve moved our services to the cloud, necessitating a one-time change to our network addresses.
Which: Having concluded a significant cloud migration we are reducing our IP address footprint, likely necessitating alteration of your internet firewall and other security devices.
When: This change occurred on 30 January, and retirement of legacy IP addresses is complete as of 30 April.
Who: It’s recommended that you advise your internal security and sysadmin people to make sure your AAP news and photos feeds stay securely connected.
AAP took careful steps to minimise disruption as we migrated to cloud. We regret the inconvenience this change may cause you and appreciate your assistance as a valued customer.
For any questions or more information please contact our technical team at help@aap.com.au or +61 2 9322-8727.
What exactly changed?
AAP offers many “push” services originating from various IP address ranges that have augmented, been replaced and/or retired. AAP services now originate exclusively from 203.4.188.0/23 and 203.4.190.0/23. Firewall changes will be needed by customers to reduce their security perimeter and enable AAP to offer greater future network redundancy.
Endpoint
Transition Legacy
From 1 May 2023
ftp.aap.com.au
35.244.78.189
203.4.188.90
35.197.175.195
203.4.188.91
34.87.210.215
203.4.188.92
203.4.188.90
203.4.188.91
203.4.188.92
203.4.190.90
203.4.190.91
203.4.190.92
Core AAP Services
203.4.190.121
203.4.188.121
203.4.190.121
Customers that have existing firewall or routing rules that explicitly allow AAP traffic originating from specific addresses will need to confirm these rules.
All aap.com.au DNS names remain unchanged and now point to the new ranges. Hardcoded IP address hostnames and URLs are no longer supported by AAP and cannot be guaranteed to function correctly, either in-browser or via programmatic interfaces..
The most commonly used AAP hostnames include:
aap.com.au
ftp.aap.com.au
photos.aap.com.au
newsroom.aap.com.au
digital.aapnewswire.com.au
ipnewsservice.aap.com.au
Note: AAP service port numbers and IPv6 addresses are unaffected.
What do you need to do?
Having completed transition steps 1 and 2 in January and February, taking this last simple step will help your organisation to minimise its network security perimeter.
Step 3: No earlier than 1 May 2023
Only after you receive email confirmation from us, you should remove all references to 35.244.78.189, 35.197.175.195 and 34.87.210.215 addresses from your firewalls, border routers or other security devices.
Finally, we ask that you kindly email us to let us know that you have completed this process please.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hey, the whitelist addresses listed here differ from the original January technote. Why?.
One reason for the delay in proceeding to step 3, originally planned for March, was to take advantage of an opportunity to port and repurpose the 203.4.190.0/23 address range after step 2 was completed by all AAP customers.
I don’t know who our tech support contact is/our tech support people that set up our AAP feed have left the company/I don’t know where to begin.
Please don’t worry. Our friendly support team members are happy to talk with you. explore available options, and generally help out. It’s our mission to keep news flowing.
Are AAP applications affected by this change?.
No. As long as you access our internet applications by name, and not by IP address, the most disruption you might encounter is a need to reload a page, or sign in again.
What about X.509 digital certificates used for https security?
aap.com.au digital certificates are domain based and not tied to the specific IPv4 address ranges.
What about IPv6?
These changes are only for IPv4 networking. IPv6 is unaffected.
I really like using hardcoded IP addresses in URLs like ftp://203.4.190.90, can’t I just keep doing that?
No. IP addresses should never be hardcoded in URLs for AAP digital services because IP addresses are subject to changes like this, and URLs like these may create security exposures.
If in any doubt…
For any questions at all or for more information please contact our technical team at help@aap.com.au or +61 2 9322-8727. This will automatically generate a support ticket that we’ll use to track and resolve your enquiry.