Autonomous system
AS8346 SONATEL SONATEL-AS Autonomous System
Residential RIPE Cable/DSL/ISP
Summary
Sonatel (Orange Senegal)
isp telecom legacy
SONATEL-AS — Societe Nationale des Telecommunications du Senegal, the Senegalese incumbent operator, based in Dakar and part of the Orange group. This is the main Sonatel autonomous system.
What it's used for
- Fixed and mobile internet access for Sonatel's customers in Senegal, plus transit for the group's regional operations. The address space is AFRINIC Senegal registrations (
41.82,41.83,154.124,154.125,196.207and neighbours), and what rDNS exists sits underorange-sonatel.com.
Notable
- A national incumbent's eyeball network: a few hundred thousand IPv4 addresses originated from a single AS, with many BGP neighbours reflecting Sonatel's role as a West African landing point and transit provider.
- rDNS coverage is sparse — typical for the region — so the prefix registrations rather than reverse names are the reliable signal here.
Interesting
- The RIPE
aut-numfor AS8346 is one of the pre-database objects (a placeholder registration date), while the addresses themselves live in AFRINIC. The split is a relic of Senegal connecting before AFRINIC existed.
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 2 exchanges in 2 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| France-IX Paris | Paris, France | 37.49.237.168 |
| HubSIX | Dakar, Senegal | 196.60.252.7 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-17, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 138 prefixes · 337K addresses IPv6 2 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| SN | Senegal | 140 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8346- Registry name
- SONATEL
- Registrant
- AS8346-MNT
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2022-01-21
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- SONATEL DAKAR
- Also known as
- SONATEL
- Network type
- Cable/DSL/ISP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Selective
- IRR as-set
AS-8346-SONATEL- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 1 facilities
- Website
- http://www.sonatel.com
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% valid · 230 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 9 authorising AS8346
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 94% registered · 218 of 233 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 31 naming AS8346
Reputation
Classification and threat
Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.
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 1,783 prefixes, as published 2026-10-17. 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