Autonomous system
AS37513 Polytechnic-
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Namibia University of Science and Technology
education university namibia
Polytechnic- is the AS handle for Namibia University of Science and Technology.
What it's used for
- The address space carries the institutional network of a public university in Namibia, as indicated by the registry holder and the AS handle
Polytechnic-. - The AS announces 1280 IPv4 addresses across 2 prefixes and maintains 2 observed neighbours, a ratio consistent with an internal educational network rather than a transit or large-scale access provider.
Notable
- The registry holder is Namibia University of Science and Technology, which aligns with the AS handle and the announced country of Namibia.
- The operator was formerly known as the Polytechnic of Namibia, which was renamed to the Namibia University of Science and Technology in 2015 by Act of Parliament.
- The inventory consists of two IPv4 prefixes: 196.216.164.0/22 and 196.12.10.0/24, with no IPv6 prefixes announced.
CLASSIFICATION - after the card, on its own final line, emit exactly:
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NA | Namibia | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37513- Registry name
- ORG-PoN1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Namibia University of Science and Technology
- Registered
- 2012-11-06
- Last changed
- 2023-10-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 8 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 8 authorising AS37513
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 8 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS37513
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: 432 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. 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