Autonomous system
AS36944 UBUNTU-UNICAST-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
UbuntuNet Alliance
education research transit africa
UBUNTU-UNICAST-AS is operated by UbuntuNet Alliance.
What it's used for
- The space carries research and education network traffic, evidenced by the reverse DNS entry
xe-7-0-0-nairobi-ua-nbo1-mtz1-01.ubuntunet.netwhich indicates peering infrastructure in Nairobi. - With 2048 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix announced against 143 observed neighbours, the high neighbour-to-address ratio implies a transit or backbone role rather than a direct access network.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant
Ubuntunet Alliance For Research and Education Networkingmatches the AS holder name exactly. - The address inventory consists of a single contiguous IPv4 block, 196.32.208.0/21, and one IPv6 prefix, 2001:43f8:20::/48.
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 3 exchanges in 3 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.31 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.210.204 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.231 |
Transit providers
25 upstream, 11 downstream and 54 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 1 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MW | Malawi | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-04-20
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS36944
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS36944
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