Autonomous system
AS12556 internet-solutions-ke
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Internet Solutions Kenya
isp business transit
A Kenyan ISP holding address space from three different registries' ranges, all under one AFRINIC org handle.
What it's used for
- Internet access and transit in East Africa. 17,408 addresses in four IPv4 prefixes, ten observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- The four blocks come from very different parts of the address space:
165.90.0.0/19,212.22.160.0/19, and two adjacent/23s at102.217.132.0and102.217.134.0. - Every one of them carries the same netname,
ORG-IL11-AFRINIC— an organisation handle standing in where a network name belongs. - All are registered to Internet Solutions (Kenya).
- First seen in routing data in July 2006, a real date rather than the floor of the archive.
Interesting
- Those three ranges are a map of how African networks got numbered.
102is AFRINIC's own block, issued after the registry was founded;212came from the European registry, which served the continent before that; and165is older still, from the era when large blocks were handed out centrally. One ISP's inventory contains the whole sequence. - Using an org handle as the netname on every block is a registry-side convention rather than an operator's choice. It means the records describe who holds the space and decline to describe what any of it is for.
- The two
102.217/23s touch end to end but are announced separately, which is the familiar tell that they were issued as two grants rather than one.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.24 |
| Uganda Internet Exchange | Kampala, Uganda | 196.223.25.84 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 17.41K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KE | Kenya | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2009-01-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 9 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12556
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 9 of 9 announcements
- Route objects
- 37 naming AS12556
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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