Autonomous system
AS37611 AFRIHOST-SP
Residential AFRINIC Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Afrihost
isp residential eyeball fiber dsl
Afrihost (AFRIHOST SP (PTY) LTD) is a popular South African consumer internet provider. This ASN carries its home subscribers.
What it's used for
- Residential broadband for South African households: fibre and DSL, resold over the national open-access wholesale networks.
Notable
- An "eyeball" network: addresses here are home connections, i.e. end users, not servers.
- Afrihost is a well-known retail ISP that rides third-party fibre/DSL infrastructure rather than owning last-mile access.
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 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 24 prefixes · 477K addresses IPv6 3 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 27 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37611- Registry name
- ORG-AS7-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- AFRIHOST SP (PTY) LTD
- Registered
- 2025-06-30
- Last changed
- 2026-01-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Afrihost
- Also known as
- Afrihost
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Website
- http://www.afrihost.com
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 · 23 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 22 authorising AS37611
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 23 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 27 naming AS37611
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. 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