Autonomous system
AS37181 AFRINIC-Anycast-RFC-5855
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
AfriNIC
registry anycast dns nonprofit
The AS handle AFRINIC-Anycast-RFC-5855 is held by African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The space carries AfriNIC's RFC 5855 anycast DNS service, as indicated by the AS handle and the netname
ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC. - The AS announces 256 IPv4 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefix, with 18 observed neighbours; this ratio of small address space to high connectivity suggests a transit or service-oriented role rather than an access network.
Notable
- The registrant
African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltdmatches the announcer, confirming consistent ownership. - AfriNIC is a non-profit Regional Internet Registry based in Mauritius, responsible for managing Internet number resources in Africa.
- The address inventory consists of a single /24 block (196.216.169.0/24) and one /48 IPv6 prefix, indicating a tightly controlled, minimal footprint for its anycast service.
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 15 exchanges in 12 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.249 |
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.122 |
| Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos | Lagos, Nigeria | 196.216.148.199 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.249 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.249 |
| Uganda Internet Exchange | Kampala, Uganda | 196.223.25.6 |
| TIX Tanzania - Dar es Salaam | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 196.223.5.10 |
| Rwanda Internet exchange | Kigali, Rwanda | 196.223.12.219 |
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 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 256 addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MU | Mauritius | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2010-03-01
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 2 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 2 authorising AS37181
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 2 of 2 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS37181
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