Autonomous system
AS37708 AFRINIC-MAIN
Unclassified LACNIC
Summary
AFRINIC
registry infrastructure nonprofit africa
The AS handle AFRINIC-MAIN is held by African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) Ltd.
What it's used for
- The address space carries the operational infrastructure of the Regional Internet Registry for Africa, with all four IPv4 prefixes registered under the netname
ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC. - The AS announces 1,280 IPv4 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes across 4 IPv4 blocks, maintaining 3 observed routing neighbours, a ratio consistent with a small-scale internal corporate estate rather than a transit or access network.
- Traffic from this AS consists of web services, API endpoints, and internal administrative systems supporting the registry's distribution and management of Internet number resources.
Notable
- All registrants for the announced prefixes match the announcer, identified as African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd.
- The address inventory is finely subdivided into four distinct IPv4 blocks and two IPv6 /48 prefixes, reflecting site-by-site segmentation of the registry's internal network.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Mauritius Internet Exchange | Ebene, Mauritius | 196.223.0.4 |
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 4 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MU | Mauritius | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- LACNIC
- Handle
AS37708- Registry name
- ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd
- Registered
- 2015-02-10
- Last changed
- 2021-10-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 6 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS37708
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 6 of 6 announcements
- Route objects
- 14 naming AS37708
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 1,772 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