Autonomous system
AS14115 AMALGAMATED-BSA
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
ABSA (Amalgamated Banks of South Africa)
finance business enterprise
One bank cuts a single range into 37 announcements, and the netname on every one of them is the registry's internal organisation handle.
What it's used for
- A bank's own network. 14,336 addresses across 37 IPv4 prefixes, with 20 observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.
Notable
- Every block that resolved carries the netname
ORG-ABSA1-AFRINIC, registered toABSA (Amalgamated Banks of South Africa). - All 37 prefixes come from
169.202, and most of them are single/24s. - The lookup for
169.202.196.0/23failed, so nothing is known about that record. - Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A netname that is the registry's own organisation identifier, suffix included, is a record generated from the database rather than described by a person. It is stable, unique and says nothing about the network.
- Thirty-seven announcements out of one range, on 20 neighbours, is a bank routing branches and sites individually. Each
/24can be withdrawn or moved without touching the others, which matters when a site goes offline and the rest must not. - Twenty neighbours is high for an enterprise. A bank in a country with expensive international transit buys locally from everyone it can, and each of those is an adjacency.
- Holding space in a range issued long before the regional registry existed, now filed under that registry's handle, records the whole history of address administration on the continent in one field.
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 3 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.46 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.177 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.163 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 6 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-18, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 37 prefixes · 14.34K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 37 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS14115- Registry name
- ORG-ABSA1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- ABSA (Amalgamated Banks of South Africa)
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2023-06-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 56 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS14115
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 56 of 56 announcements
- Route objects
- 62 naming AS14115
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: 443 networks and 1,784 prefixes, as published 2026-10-19. 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