Autonomous system
AS31856 CABS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
YoAfrica
residential cable isp zimbabwe
The AS handle CABS is held by YoAfrica (Pvt) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential broadband access, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
bc-255-43sxxx.broadband.yoafrica.comands23381.broadband.yoafrica.com. - The network announces 14080 IPv4 addresses across 22 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining only 3 observed neighbours, a ratio indicative of an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of the largest prefixes, including 41.190.40.0/21 and 168.253.36.0/22, are listed as YoAfrica (Pvt) Ltd with the netname ORG-CABS1-AFRINIC, aligning with the AS holder.
- Secondary sources identify the operator as YoAfrica, also known as dandemutande (Pvt) Ltd, operating as a Cable/DSL/ISP in Africa.
- The inventory consists of 23 prefixes located in Zimbabwe, with the largest block being 41.190.40.0/21.
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
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-15, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 22 prefixes · 14.08K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZW | Zimbabwe | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2012-03-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 2% valid · 1 valid, 51 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS31856
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 51 of 52 announcements
- Route objects
- 59 naming AS31856
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: 442 networks and 1,781 prefixes, as published 2026-10-16. 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