Autonomous system
AS37395 ABARI
Unclassified APNIC NSP
Summary
Abari Communications
isp botswana nsp africa
The AS handle ABARI is held by Abari Communications.
What it's used for
- The address space carries customer and infrastructure traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as
102-165-130-0.abaricom.co.bwand41-79-138-254.abaricom.co.bw. - The network announces 5120 IPv4 addresses across 3 prefixes and 1 IPv6 prefix, while maintaining 22 observed neighbours; this ratio of moderate address space to a significant number of peering partners indicates a regional network service provider role.
Notable
- The registrant for the largest prefix, 102.165.128.0/21, is listed as Abari Communications with the netname ORG-AC3-AFRINIC, aligning with the AS holder.
- The address inventory consists of two /21 blocks in the 102.165.0.0/16 range and one /22 block in the 41.79.0.0/16 range, all located in Botswana.
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 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.8.202 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 3 prefixes · 5.12K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BW | Botswana | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS37395- Registry name
- ORG-AC3-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Abari Communications
- Registered
- 2011-11-17
- Last changed
- 2024-09-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Abari Communications
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 2 exchanges
- Website
- http://www.abaricom.co.bw
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 · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS37395
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 7 naming AS37395
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: 445 networks and 1,817 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. 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