Autonomous system
AS37172 Mitsol (Pty) Ltd - Mitsol (Pty) Ltd
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Mitsol
residential fibre wireless regional
The AS handle MITSOL is held by Mitsol (Pty) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential broadband services, specifically fibre-to-the-home and wireless broadband, as indicated by the operator's service descriptions for "Mitsol Fibre" and "Resinet Residential Broadband Wireless."
- The AS announces 8192 IPv4 addresses across 5 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 26 observed neighbours. This ratio of address space to peering partners is consistent with a regional access network providing last-mile connectivity rather than a large-scale transit provider.
Notable
- All RDAP registrants for the announced prefixes are listed as Mitsol (Pty) Ltd, with the netname ORG-ML6-AFRINIC, confirming the registrant matches the AS holder.
- The address inventory consists of five distinct IPv4 blocks, including three /21s and two /22s, all located in South Africa.
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 5 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.35 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.157 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.77 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.73 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.77 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-02, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 5 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37172- Registry name
- ORG-ML6-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Mitsol (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2010-02-05
- Last changed
- 2020-11-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 30 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS37172
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 30 of 30 announcements
- Route objects
- 32 naming AS37172
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: 448 networks and 1,851 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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