AAP January 2023 IP address change notice
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Please read the updated May 2023 notice.
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January 2023 IP Address Change 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’re moving our services to cloud, necessitating a one-time change to our network addresses.
Which: Although no DNS names will change, the IP addresses they resolve to and the originating IP addresses of all AAP push services will change, likely necessitating alteration of your internet firewall and other security devices.
When: AAP public network addresses will change no earlier than 26 January 2023 and no later than 3 February 2023.
Who: It’s crucial that you advise your internal security and sysadmin team to make sure your AAP news and photos feeds stay connected.
AAP is taking careful steps to minimise disruption as we migrate to cloud, however this change is unavoidable. 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 is changing?
AAP offers many “push” services originating from the public IPv4 address range 203.4.190.0/23. This subnet will be replaced and retired. Additional firewall entries will be needed by customers, enabling AAP to offer greater future network redundancy.
Endpoint
Before
After
ftp.aap.com.au
203.4.190.90
203.4.190.91
203.4.190.92
35.244.78.189
203.4.188.90
35.197.175.195
203.4.188.91
34.87.210.215
203.4.188.92
Core AAP Services
203.4.190.121
34.116.69.225
203.4.188.121
Customers that have existing firewall or routing rules that explicitly allow AAP traffic originating from 203.4.190.0/23 addresses will need to change these rules.
All aap.com.au DNS names will remain unchanged but any A records that point to the current range will necessarily change to the new range. 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?
Taking these simple steps will help your organisation to navigate this change with no service interruption or downtime.
Step 1: Now, no later than 26 January 2023
Please immediately whitelist the new addresses on your firewalls, border routers or other security devices. Depending on your systems, you may also need to change settings in receiving applications (for example a destination ftp server). Due to load balancing and redundancy considerations it’s important that you add every entry specified as we can’t guarantee the particular address traffic will originate from.
Your systems will accept traffic from both our old and new IPv4 ranges during the transition period.
Note: To ensure service continuity It’s extremely important not to disable any 203.4.190.0/23 range addresses at this time.
We request that you email to let us know that you have begun the transition and let us know your current technical contact(s) details.
Step 2: From 27 January 2023
AAP will transition dozens of services for hundreds of customers over approximately a week from 27 January 2023 onwards.
No earlier than 3 February 2023 we will email your technical contact(s) to advise as soon as the transition is complete and you may proceed to step 3.
Step 3: No earlier than 3 February 2023
Only after you receive email confirmation from us, you should remove all 203.4.190.0/23 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 transitioned.
Frequently Asked Questions
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 203.4.190.0/23 IPv4 address range.
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.