Autonomous system
AS6149 TENET-2
Education APNIC
Summary
TENET (The UNINET Project)
education research legacy
TENET-2 belongs to TENET, the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa, registered under the historical "UNINET Project" organisation name. TENET is South Africa's national research and education network.
What it's used for
- Research and education connectivity for South African universities, science councils and affiliated institutions.
- This particular ASN carries a small footprint (about a /24 of IPv4); TENET's bulk transit and campus aggregation ride its larger, better-known autonomous systems.
Notable
- An NREN, not a commercial ISP. Its address space serves member institutions under an acceptable-use policy rather than paying retail subscribers.
- The ASN sits in AFRINIC's registry today via an ERX-style transfer, which is why ARIN lookups on the number point at an AFRINIC block rather than a US holder.
Interesting
- The UNINET name preserves the earlier South African academic networking project that TENET grew out of, so the registration itself is a piece of the country's networking history.
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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.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS2018 | Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa | 62 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-20, 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 · 256 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZA | South Africa | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6149- Registry name
- ORG-UP1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2025-10-08
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 1 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 1 authorising AS6149
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS6149
Reputation
Classification and threat
Education University, school or national research and education network.
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 1,778 prefixes, as published 2026-10-20. 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