Autonomous system
AS37428 AFRICANBANK
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
African Bank
banking enterprise south-africa
The AS handle AFRICANBANK is held by African Bank, a South African financial institution.
What it's used for
- The address space is registered to Africanbank, indicating internal corporate infrastructure for a banking entity.
- The AS announces 256 IPv4 addresses within a single /24 prefix (196.15.12.0/24) and maintains 12 observed neighbours. This ratio of a small, single-block inventory against a moderate number of peering partners suggests a business network with specific connectivity requirements rather than a large-scale access or transit provider.
Notable
- The registry holder and AS name align directly with the operator, identifying the space as belonging to the bank itself.
- Secondary sources indicate the bank has undergone strategic acquisitions and a subsequent rebrand, which may explain the current network configuration and identity.
- The inventory consists of a single contiguous IPv4 block with no announced IPv6 prefixes, reflecting a focused, legacy-centric address allocation for corporate use.
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 | 196.60.9.237 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, 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 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37428- Registry name
- ORG-AA85-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Africanbank
- Registered
- 2012-03-07
- Last changed
- 2025-11-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37428
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS37428
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: 442 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-21. 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