Autonomous system
AS55330 GCN-DCN-AS AFGHANTELECOM GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Afghan Telecom
government telecom afghanistan
GCN-DCN-AS is operated by Afghan Telecom, the state-owned telecommunications provider in Afghanistan.
What it's used for
- The address space carries government and public sector communications, with all registrants identified as "Government Communications Network" under the netname
GCN-DCN. - The AS announces 30,976 IPv4 addresses across 25 prefixes and maintains 45 observed routing neighbours, indicating a role focused on connecting government offices and providing national-level connectivity rather than high-volume residential access.
- Traffic from this AS consists of voice and data services for ministries, government offices, and public institutions across Kabul and provincial capitals, supporting the country's administrative and digital infrastructure.
Notable
- All registrants in the sample agree with the announcer, consistently listing "Government Communications Network" as the holder.
- The address inventory is dominated by blocks in the 149.54.0.0/16 and 180.94.0.0/16 ranges, with smaller allocations in 203.215.0.0/16 and other /24s, reflecting a consolidated government estate.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| National Internet Exchange of Afghanistan | Kabul, Afghanistan | 103.104.146.40 |
Transit providers
5 upstream, 39 downstream and 48 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 23 prefixes · 31.23K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| AF | Afghanistan | 23 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS55330- Registry name
- GCN-DCN-AS
- Registrant
- Government Communications Network
- Abuse contact
- z.malikzada@afghantelecom.af
- Registered
- 2009-12-08
- Last changed
- 2026-06-22
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- AFGHANTELECOM GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION NETWORK
- Also known as
- AFGHANTELECOM
- Scope
- Not Disclosed
- Traffic ratio
- Not Disclosed
- Peering policy
- Open
- IRR as-set
AS55330- Website
- http://www.afghantelecom.af/
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
- 99.2% valid · 121 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 166 authorising AS55330
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.2% registered · 121 of 122 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 268 naming AS55330
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: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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