Autonomous system
AS37356 Huge-Networks
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Huge Networks
isp residential business south-africa
Huge-Networks is operated by Huge Networks (Pty) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries residential and business connectivity, evidenced by reverse DNS entries pointing to
sainet.co.za(e.g.,197-155-104-0.sainet.co.za). - The AS announces 38,400 IPv4 addresses across 9 prefixes and 6 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 24 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space against a significant peer count indicates a regional access and transit provider.
Notable
- Registrants for the majority of prefixes are
Huge Networks (Pty) Ltdunder the netnameORG-SI5-AFRINIC, though the prefix197.149.180.0/22is registered toJIREH Technologies (PTY) Ltd.underORG-JTL2-AFRINIC. - The operator was previously known as ConnectNet before being acquired by the JSE-listed Huge Group Ltd in August 2017 and rebranded as Huge Connect.
- The inventory consists of several /19 and /20 blocks, with a single /22 and two /24 prefixes, reflecting a consolidated corporate estate.
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 6 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.10 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.70.195 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.96.75 |
| NAPAfrica IX Durban | Durban, South Africa | 196.10.141.40 |
| Cape Town Internet Exchange | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.223.22.75 |
| Durban Internet eXchange | Durban, South Africa | 196.223.30.75 |
Transit providers
6 upstream, 0 downstream and 9 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 14 prefixes · 38.40K addresses IPv6 6 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 20 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37356- Registry name
- ORG-SI5-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Huge Networks (Pty) Ltd
- Registered
- 2021-03-24
- Last changed
- 2026-10-02
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 94% valid · 33 valid, 2 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 18 authorising AS37356
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 91% registered · 32 of 35 announcements 2 other origin
- Route objects
- 84 naming AS37356
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