Autonomous system
AS36916 X-DSL-NET1
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Stem Connect
residential isp south-africa cable
X-DSL-NET1 is operated by Stem Connect, a South African internet service provider formerly known as X-DSL Networking Solutions.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business internet access, evidenced by the registrant netname
ORG-XNS1-AFRINICassociated with X-DSL Networking Solutions. - The AS announces 74,752 IPv4 addresses across 43 prefixes and 4 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 86 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space to high peering density is characteristic of an access network providing last-mile connectivity.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of the largest prefixes, such as
41.180.96.0/19and41.180.16.0/20, are listed as X-DSL Networking Solutions, aligning with the AS holder, though some blocks show unknown registrants. - The operator was formerly known as X-DSL Networking Solutions and is now branded as Stem Connect, reflecting a corporate rebranding of the South African ISP.
- The inventory includes a prefix
69.17.112.0/21registered to GTT Americas, LLC with netnameMEGAPATH-BLK-61, which stands out against the predominantly AFRINIC-allocated South African address space.
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 9 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.67 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.169 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.5 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.49 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.184 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.49 |
| Internet Neutral Exchange Association CLG - LAN1 | Dublin, Ireland | 185.6.36.185 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.49 |
Transit providers
22 upstream, 4 downstream and 29 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 40 prefixes · 91.14K addresses IPv6 4 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 44 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS36916- Registry name
- ORG-XNS1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- X-DSL Networking Solutions
- Registered
- 2006-09-28
- Last changed
- 2026-07-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 93% valid · 78 valid, 3 with no ROA 3 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 94 authorising AS36916
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 79 of 84 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 106 naming AS36916
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 1,775 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