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Autonomous system

AS37085 The Open University of Tanzania - The Open University of Tanzania

Unclassified RIPE

IPv4 addresses 256 1 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 0 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly TZ
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

The Open University of Tanzania

Tanzania, United Republic of · AI-generated

education university distance-learning tanzania

The AS handle OUT-AS is operated by The Open University of Tanzania.

What it's used for

  • The address space carries university infrastructure, evidenced by the reverse DNS record mk.out.ac.tz and the netname ORG-TOUo1-AFRINIC registered to The Open University of Tanzania.
  • The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix, 196.216.247.0/24, comprising 256 addresses, with no IPv6 prefixes in inventory.
  • With only 1 observed neighbour, the low address-to-neighbour ratio indicates a small, self-contained institutional network rather than a transit or large-scale access provider.

Notable

  • The RDAP registrant for the announced prefix matches the AS holder, confirming direct ownership of the address space.
  • The address inventory consists of a single /24 block, representing a compact and finely subdivided internal corporate estate typical of a university campus network.

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

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS37182Tanzania Education And Research Network62

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-05, 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 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
TZTanzania, United Republic of1

Registry

Allocation record

RIPE · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
RIPE
Handle
AS37085
Registry name
ORG-TOUo1-AFRINIC
Registrant
The Open University of Tanzania
Registered
2009-01-27
Last changed
2023-11-22
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
ROAs
1 authorising AS37085
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
Route objects
1 naming AS37085

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: 453 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. 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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