Autonomous system
AS37177 African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd - African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd
Unclassified AFRINIC Non-Profit
Summary
AFRINIC
registry infrastructure dns nonprofit
AFRINIC-ANYCAST is operated by African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The space carries registry infrastructure, evidenced by the reverse DNS record
ns-cd.afrinic.netand the netnameORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC. - The AS announces 256 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix against 18 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with a specialized infrastructure or transit role rather than mass access.
Notable
- The registrant
African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltdmatches the AS holder, confirming direct ownership of the address space. - AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, headquartered in Mauritius, responsible for allocating IP addresses and managing DNS services for the region.
- The inventory consists of a single /24 IPv4 block and a /48 IPv6 prefix, indicating a compact, dedicated infrastructure footprint.
CLASSIFICATION - after the card, on its own final line, emit exactly:
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 16 exchanges in 13 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.248 |
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.121 |
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.198 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.248 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.248 |
| Uganda Internet Exchange | Kampala, Uganda | 196.223.25.5 |
| TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 196.223.5.9 |
| Rwanda Internet exchange | Kigali, Rwanda | 196.223.12.218 |
Transit providers
4 upstream, 0 downstream and 6 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 2026-11-03, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MU | Mauritius | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37177- Registry name
- ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd
- Registered
- 2010-02-15
- Last changed
- 2021-10-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- AFRINIC DNS Support
- Network type
- Non-Profit
- Scope
- Global
- Traffic ratio
- Heavy Outbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AFRINIC::AS37177- Present at
- 17 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.afrinic.net/initiatives/dns-support
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS37177
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS37177
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 2026-11-04. 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