Autonomous system
AS36914 KENET-AS
Residential AFRINIC
Summary
Kenya Education Network
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KENET-AS is operated by Kenya Education Network.
What it's used for
- The address space carries the infrastructure for Kenya's National Research and Education Network (NREN), supporting research and education institutions.
- With 335,616 IPv4 addresses and 58 IPv6 prefixes announced against 13 observed neighbours, the high address-to-neighbour ratio indicates an access or eyeball network role rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of the largest prefixes are listed as Kenya Education Network, with netnames such as ORG-KEN1-AFRINIC, aligning with the AS holder.
- The address inventory is finely subdivided into 248 IPv4 prefixes, including multiple /18 and /19 blocks, reflecting a structured internal corporate estate for site-by-site segmentation.
- KENET is a not-for-profit membership operator incorporated to support research and education institutions in Kenya.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.16 |
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Mombasa | Mombasa, Kenya | 196.60.68.57 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 2 downstream and 12 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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 254 prefixes · 336K addresses IPv6 58 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KE | Kenya | 312 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2006-09-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 574 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS36914
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.5% registered · 571 of 574 announcements
- Route objects
- 1,150 naming AS36914
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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