Autonomous system
AS36985 GMS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Global Micro Solutions
hosting business managed-services south-africa
The AS handle GMS is operated by Global Micro Solutions, a South African managed services and hosted infrastructure provider.
What it's used for
- The address space carries business and hosted infrastructure services, evidenced by the registrant netname
ORG-GMS1-AFRINICand the operator's focus on Microsoft 365 security, cloud workloads, and hosted virtual services. - The AS announces 7,168 IPv4 addresses across 3 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 20 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space against a significant number of peers suggests a role in providing connectivity and hosting services to business clients rather than pure transit.
Notable
- All three announced IPv4 prefixes are registered to Global Micro Solutions under the netname
ORG-GMS1-AFRINIC, confirming the registrants align with the AS holder. - The address inventory consists of three distinct IPv4 blocks: 154.66.64.0/20, 41.77.56.0/21, and 41.223.172.0/22, alongside a single IPv6 prefix 2c0f:f150::/32, indicating a consolidated corporate estate.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.131 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 7.17K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS36985- Registry name
- ORG-GMS1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Global Micro Solutions
- Registered
- 2007-11-05
- Last changed
- 2023-05-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 10 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS36985
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 6 naming AS36985
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: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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