Autonomous system
AS37057 VODACOM-LESOTHO
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Vodacom Lesotho
mobile telecom lesot
The AS handle VODACOM-LESOTHO is held by Vodacom Lesotho (Pty) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries mobile telecommunications traffic, evidenced by the reverse DNS record
host254-r191205.vcl.co.lsand the netnameORG-VLL1-AFRINICassociated with the majority of prefixes. - The AS announces 61,440 IPv4 addresses across 13 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 20 observed neighbours; this ratio of address space to peering partners is consistent with a national mobile operator providing access services.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes, including 156.0.0.0/18 and 197.189.128.0/18, align with the announcer, listing Vodacom Lesotho (Pty) Ltd as the holder.
- The address inventory is composed of several large /18 blocks alongside smaller /21 and /24 allocations, reflecting a segmented corporate estate typical of a regional mobile network operator.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.10.116 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.71.160 |
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 13 prefixes · 61.44K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LS | Lesotho | 14 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2008-09-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 37 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 7 authorising AS37057
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 57% registered · 21 of 37 announcements
- Route objects
- 11 naming AS37057
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