Autonomous system
AS37520 Rhodes University - Rhodes University
Education APNIC Educational/Research
Summary
Rhodes University
education university
Campus network of Rhodes University, a public research university in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), Eastern Cape, South Africa.
What it's used for
- Campus, research, and administrative networking for the university's students, residences, and departments.
Notable
- An IP here is institutional (campus, dorms, labs), classified
educationrather than commercial hosting.
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
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 2026-11-02, 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 · 65.79K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS37520- Registry name
- ORG-RU1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Rhodes University
- Registered
- 2012-11-12
- Last changed
- 2022-10-31
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Rhodes University
- Also known as
- RU
- Network type
- Educational/Research
- Scope
- Regional
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS-RHODESUNIV- Website
- https://www.ru.ac.za
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 · 4 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 4 authorising AS37520
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 75% registered · 3 of 4 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS37520
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: 449 networks and 1,846 prefixes, as published 2026-11-03. 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