Autonomous system
AS7420 Zamnet - Zamnet
Unclassified AFRINIC
Summary
Zamnet Communication Systems
isp legacy
Zamnet Communication Systems Ltd, Zambia's first internet service provider, based at the COMESA Centre on Ben Bella Road in Lusaka. The ASN announces around 8k IPv4 addresses, all within 196.46.192.0/18.
What it's used for
- Internet access for customers across Zambia — Zamnet operates points of presence in Lusaka, Kitwe, Livingstone, Ndola and Solwezi.
- Also carries Zamnet's own service infrastructure; reverse DNS in the block includes hosts such as
smtp.zamnet.zm.
Notable
- Founded in 1994 and wholly owned by the University of Zambia, Zamnet brought the internet to Zambia and remains one of the country's longest-running operators.
- Zamnet also administers the
.zmcountry-code top-level domain.
Interesting
- The company grew directly out of a university networking project, a common origin story for the first ISP in many African and Latin American countries — the academic network was the only entity with international connectivity to build on.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lusaka Internet Exchange Point | Lusaka, Zambia | 196.60.94.23 |
Transit providers
1 upstream, 1 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS60171 | AFR-IX TELECOM S.A. | 1,470 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 12 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZM | Zambia | 12 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Handle
AS7420- Registry name
- ORG-ZA1-AFRINIC
- Registrant
- Zamnet
- Registered
- 2005-02-21
- Last changed
- 2016-05-26
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 23 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS7420
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 23 announcements
- Route objects
- 0 naming AS7420
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: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. 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