Autonomous system
AS37215 MAREN
Education LACNIC
Summary
Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN)
education research nren
The Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN), Malawi's national research and education network (NREN), recognized by the government through the Ministry of Education.
What it's used for
- Connecting Malawi's universities and research institutions to each other and internationally, plus shared services like hosting, identity federation, and cybersecurity.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional — it belongs to a member university or research body on the national backbone — classified
educationrather than commercial hosting.
Interesting
- MAREN was established in 2005 by the University of Malawi and Mzuzu University to overcome inter-campus connectivity challenges.
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 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Malawi Internet Exchange | Blantyre, Malawi | 196.223.27.56 |
| Lilongwe Open and Neutral Internet Exchange | Lilongwe, Malawi | 196.60.122.36 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS36944 | Ubuntunet Alliance For Research and Education Networking | 3,145 |
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 18 prefixes · 32.77K addresses IPv6 22 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MW | Malawi | 40 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- LACNIC
- Handle
AS37215- Registry name
- ORG-MRaE1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Malawi Research and Education Network - MAREN
- Registered
- 2014-08-22
- Last changed
- 2026-06-30
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 53 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS37215
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 53 of 53 announcements
- Route objects
- 53 naming AS37215
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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