Autonomous system
AS37045 tznic
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Tanzania Network Information Centre
registry ncc infrastructure government
The AS handle tznic is held by Tanzania Network Information Centre (tzNIC).
What it's used for
- The address space is registered under the netname
ORG-TNIC1-AFRINIC, indicating it is the national registry's own operational estate rather than customer-facing access infrastructure. - The AS announces 512 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and 2 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining only 1 observed neighbour. This low neighbour count relative to the address inventory suggests a limited peering footprint typical of a national registry or infrastructure provider rather than a large transit carrier.
Notable
- The RDAP registrants for both announced IPv4 prefixes (
102.165.191.0/24and196.216.162.0/24) match the AS holder, confirming direct ownership of the address space. - TzNIC is a non-profit Public Private Partnership established by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA) to manage the .tz domain and national internet resources.
- The inventory consists of two distinct /24 IPv4 blocks and two /48 IPv6 prefixes, representing a modest, self-contained address allocation for the registry's internal operations.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 196.223.5.39 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-16, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 512 addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| TZ | Tanzania, United Republic of | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37045- Registry name
- ORG-TNIC1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Tanzania Network Information Centre (tzNIC)
- Registered
- 2008-08-18
- Last changed
- 2026-06-23
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 4 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37045
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 25% registered · 1 of 4 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS37045
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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