Autonomous system
AS11157 ELAB
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
Electronic Laboratory Services (Pty) Ltd
enterprise legacy
ELAB is the AS of Electronic Laboratory Services (Pty) Ltd, registered with AFRINIC at 21 Napier Road, Richmond, Johannesburg. Its contacts sit across two domains — @elab.co.za and @lancet.co.za — placing it inside the Lancet Laboratories pathology group, whose laboratory information systems it supports.
What it's used for
A single corporate edge. RIS observes one announced IPv4 prefix, 196.3.151.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6, and one BGP neighbour. A lone /24 behind a single upstream is an enterprise's own presence on the internet: enough space for public-facing services and remote access into a private network, and nothing like the inventory or the peering breadth of a provider. The prefix is registered to ORG-ELSC1-AFRINIC, the company's own AFRINIC org handle, so this is first-party space rather than something borrowed or leased.
Notable
The name is a good example of why handles need checking rather than reading. ELAB sounds like it could be a research or education network; the AFRINIC record shows a South African commercial company in the clinical-pathology business. The correct classification follows the registered organisation and its contacts, not the suggestive abbreviation.
Interesting
Despite a low AS number, AFRINIC's registration date for AS11157 is 2005, and the address block is AFRINIC 196/8 space — so nothing here is a legacy 1990s network, and there is no reason to attach any /8-based geographic or historical inference to it. Reverse DNS returned nothing on the two addresses sampled, which is a sample and supports no conclusion either way.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS327935 | iSPACE (PTY) LTD | 65 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS11157- Registry name
- ORG-ELSC1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Electronic laboratory Services Pty Ltd
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2026-04-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS11157
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS11157
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere