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AS36970 interswitch

Hosting AFRINIC

IPv4 addresses 512 2 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly NG
Exchanges 1 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 4 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

iPartners Limited

Nigeria · AI-generated

business nigerian network consulting

The AS handle interswitch is held by iPartners Limited.

What it's used for

  • The address space is registered to iPartners Limited, with one prefix carrying the netname ORG-IL19-AFRINIC and the other listed as unknown.
  • The AS announces 512 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and maintains 5 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a small business or internal corporate network rather than a transit provider.

Notable

  • The registrant for the 41.223.145.0/24 prefix matches the AS holder, while the 41.203.117.0/24 prefix shows an unknown registrant in the RDAP data.
  • iPartners Limited is a Nigerian consulting firm that designs, builds, and manages customized network solutions for organizations.
  • The inventory consists of two /24 blocks, both located in Nigeria, with no IPv6 prefixes announced.

CLASSIFICATION - after the card, on its own final line, emit exactly:

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

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.

ExchangeLocationTheir address
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - LagosLagos, Nigeria196.216.148.189

Transit providers

4 upstream, 0 downstream and 4 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS37613DOLPHIN TELECOMMUNICATION LIMITED69
AS29091ipNX Nigeria Limited30
AS37282Main one Cable Company Nigeria Limited29
AS37721Virtual Technologies & Solutions2

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

Shape and geography

IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
NGNigeria2

Registry

Allocation record

AFRINIC · via Atlas (registry data)
Registry
AFRINIC
Registered
2007-08-22
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
0% valid · 0 valid, 2 with no ROA
ROAs
0 authorising AS36970
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
Route objects
6 naming AS36970

Reputation

Classification and threat

Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.

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: 432 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

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