Autonomous system
AS37179 AFRICAINX
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
AfricaINX
isp residential business south-africa
AFRICAINX is operated by Africa Independent Network Exchange (Pty) LTD.
What it's used for
- The address space carries a mix of residential and business connectivity, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
41-84-95-254-adsl.africainx.netand41-189-72-0-0.PINELANDS-HOSTING.ensync.net. - The AS announces 60,672 IPv4 addresses across 9 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 45 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space to a significant number of peering partners suggests a regional ISP role with substantial transit and peering activity.
Notable
- Registrants for the largest prefixes include Africa Independent Network Exchange (Pty) LTD, Ensync Business Solutions (PTY)Ltd, Avitronics, Momentum Investments Shared Services(Pty) Ltd, and DXC Technology South Africa (Pty) Ltd, indicating a diverse set of end-users or leased space within the announced blocks.
- Secondary sources identify the operator as SEACOM Managed Services SA, also known as Network Solutions, Hymax, and AfricaINX, suggesting a corporate rebranding or merger history.
- The inventory includes a large /17 block (41.84.0.0/17) alongside smaller /24 allocations, reflecting a varied address estate that supports both bulk residential services and specific corporate deployments.
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 7 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.225.137 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.135 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.7 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.47 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.7 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.47 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.47 |
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 9 prefixes · 60.67K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 10 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37179- Registry name
- ORG-AINE1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Africa Independent Network Exchange (Pty) LTD (AfricaINX)
- Registered
- 2010-02-18
- Last changed
- 2024-01-24
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 30% valid · 3 valid, 7 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS37179
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 10 of 10 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS37179
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: 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