Autonomous system
AS60171 AFRIX-AS
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
AFR-IX Telecom
transit africa telecom
AFRIX-AS is operated by AFR-IX Telecom S.A.
What it's used for
- The address space carries blocks registered to AFR-IX entities and regional subsidiaries, including
AFR-IX TELECOM LIMITED,AFR-IX MAURITANIE - SARL,AFR-IX TELECOM NIGER, andAFR-IX TELECOM CAMEROUN SARL. - With 20,224 IPv4 addresses announced across 31 prefixes and 2,380 observed neighbours, the high neighbour-to-address ratio indicates a transit role rather than an access network.
- As an NSP with an Africa scope, the traffic consists of inter-regional transit and backhaul for its subsidiary operations across West and Central Africa.
Notable
- Registrants align with the announcer, showing a consistent corporate structure with entities like
AFR-IX DATA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITEDandM'DATA TELECOM MALI SARL. - The inventory is finely subdivided into /22 and /23 blocks, reflecting a corporate estate segmented by country or subsidiary rather than a single monolithic allocation.
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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 30 exchanges in 18 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.193.31 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.226.123 |
| NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.9.214 |
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.236.239 |
| Milan Internet Exchange | Milan, Italy | 217.29.67.246 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn | Ashburn, United States | 206.126.238.93 |
| NAPAfrica IX Cape Town | Cape Town, South Africa | 196.60.71.42 |
| Johannesburg Internet Exchange | Johannesburg, South Africa | 196.60.97.33 |
Transit providers
30 upstream, 117 downstream and 221 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 31 prefixes · 20.48K addresses IPv6 10 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ES | Spain | 41 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS60171- Registry name
- AFRIX-AS
- Registrant
- NA95547-MNT
- Abuse contact
- noc@afr-ix.com
- Registered
- 2013-09-10
- Last changed
- 2026-09-09
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 88% valid · 38 valid, 4 with no ROA 1 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 42 authorising AS60171
- ASPA
- 11 declared providers
- IRR
- 95% registered · 41 of 43 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 54 naming AS60171
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