Autonomous system
AS36940 IXPN-AS-MGMT
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria
ixp nsp management nigerian
The AS handle IXPN-AS-MGMT is held by Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria.
What it's used for
- The space carries management infrastructure for the exchange, as indicated by the AS handle suffix and the netname
ORG-NIX1-AFRINICassociated with all announced prefixes. - With 1024 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix announced against 24 observed neighbours, the ratio suggests a transit or peering role rather than a large access network, consistent with an IXP management function.
Notable
- All registrants for the announced prefixes are listed as Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, matching the AS holder.
- The address inventory consists of four distinct /24 blocks in the 196.49.0.0/16 and 196.216.0.0/16 ranges, plus a single /48 IPv6 prefix.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.15 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.02K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 5 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS36940- Registry name
- ORG-NIX1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria
- Registered
- 2016-08-16
- Last changed
- 2025-07-29
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS36940
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 9 naming AS36940
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 1,772 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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