Autonomous system
AS37686 ABUZ1-AS
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Ahmadu Bello University
education university nigerian
The AS handle ABUZ1-AS is held by Ahmadu Bello University.
What it's used for
- The address space carries the university's internal network, identified by the netname
ORG-ABUZ1-AFRINICand registrant Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Nigeria. - The inventory consists of 512 IPv4 addresses within a single prefix, 196.220.66.0/23, with 1 observed neighbour, indicating a small, self-contained educational network.
- Traffic from this AS represents academic and administrative users, including students and staff, accessing the internet for research, instruction, and institutional services.
Notable
- The RDAP registrant matches the AS holder, confirming the space is directly owned by the university.
- The address inventory is compact, consisting of a single /23 block, which is typical for a large but single-site academic institution.
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 2026-10-14, 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 · 512 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NG | Nigeria | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS37686- Registry name
- ORG-ABUZ1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Nigeria
- Registered
- 2013-07-18
- Last changed
- 2023-12-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS37686
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 1 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 2 naming AS37686
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 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-15. 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