Autonomous system
AS36873 VNL1-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Airtel Nigeria
mobile nsp nigeria airtel
VNL1-AS is operated by Airtel Networks Limited.
What it's used for
- The address space is registered under the netname
ORG-VNL1-AFRINICwith registrantAirtel Networks Limited, indicating a mobile network operator estate. - The AS announces 578048 IPv4 addresses across 83 prefixes and 9 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 42 observed neighbours; this high address-to-neighbour ratio is characteristic of an access or eyeball network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- All sampled registrants align with the announcer, consistently listing
Airtel Networks Limitedas the holder. - Airtel Networks Limited rebranded to Airtel in 2010 following its acquisition by Bharti Airtel, now functioning as an indirect subsidiary of Bharti Airtel International.
- The inventory consists of a large block of contiguous /16 and /17 prefixes within the 105.112.0.0/14 range, alongside finer /19 and /20 subdivisions.
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 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.19 |
| West Africa Interconnection Exchange | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.49.90.27 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 26 downstream and 43 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 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 59 prefixes · 578K addresses IPv6 15 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 74 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS36873- Registry name
- ORG-VNL1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Airtel Networks Limited
- Registered
- 2005-10-24
- Last changed
- 2026-08-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Airtel Networks Nigeria
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-AIRTEL-NG- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Facilities
- 3 facilities
- Website
- https://www.airtel.com.ng
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.2% valid · 658 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS36873
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 98% registered · 651 of 663 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 212 naming AS36873
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: 431 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