Autonomous system
AS37586 AS37586
Unclassified DROP-listed space AFRINIC
Summary
AfriNIC
registry infrastructure afnic
AS37586 is operated by AfriNIC (African Network Information Center).
What it's used for
- The address space is registered to AfriNIC TEAM with the netname
ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC, indicating this is the registry's own operational infrastructure rather than customer space. - The AS announces a single IPv4 prefix (
197.231.248.0/22) comprising 1024 addresses and has 0 IPv6 prefixes. With only 2 observed neighbours, the low neighbour count relative to the address block suggests a limited peering footprint typical of a registry's internal or management network rather than a transit provider.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant AfriNIC TEAM aligns directly with the known identity of the African Network Information Center, confirming the AS belongs to the RIR itself.
- The inventory consists of a single contiguous /22 block, which is a standard allocation size for an organization's internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Burundi Internet Exchange Point | Bujumbura, Burundi | 154.73.42.6 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-21, 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 · 1.02K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Allocation
- reserved
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 5 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS37586
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS37586
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.
1 DROP match Announced space overlapping the DROP prefix list.
| Announced | DROP entry | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 197.231.248.0/22 | 197.231.248.0/22 | SBL698608 |
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 2026-10-22. 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