Autonomous system
AS7420 ZAMNET-AS
Unclassified
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.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| ZM | Zambia | 12 |
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere