Autonomous system
AS37153 xneelo
Hosting AFRINIC
Summary
Xneelo
hosting business south-africa
The AS handle xneelo is operated by Xneelo (Pty) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries hosting services, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
0.160.38.156.reverse.xneelo.netand254.239.189.197.reverse.xneelo.net. - The AS announces 213,760 IPv4 addresses across 42 prefixes and maintains 37 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a hosting provider serving multiple customer segments rather than a pure transit or residential access network.
Notable
- All sampled registrants for the largest prefixes, including 160.115.0.0/16 and 156.38.128.0/17, list Xneelo (Pty) Ltd as the holder with the netname ORG-HC1-AFRINIC, aligning with the AS announcer.
- The operator was formerly known as Hetzner (Pty) Ltd, rebranding to Xneelo in 2019 to distinguish itself from the German hosting provider and facilitate international expansion.
- The inventory includes a mix of large blocks like 160.115.0.0/16 and numerous smaller /19 to /23 prefixes, reflecting a segmented corporate estate for different service tiers or legacy acquisitions.
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 4 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.24 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.21 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.98 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.98 |
Transit providers
7 upstream, 12 downstream and 28 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 42 prefixes · 214K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 44 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37153- Registry name
- ORG-HC1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Xneelo (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2009-10-26
- Last changed
- 2026-08-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 90% valid · 44 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 29 authorising AS37153
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 49 of 49 announcements
- Route objects
- 140 naming AS37153
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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