AS12455 — JAMBONET

AS12455 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 303,104 addresses and 1 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Kenya's national gateway network, with animals for router names.

What it's used for

• National internet access. 303,104 addresses in thirty-eight IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6 /32, and ten observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• The AS handle is JAMBONET, the name of the country's gateway service.
• Reverse DNS answers with Swahili animal names — twiga, kiboko, chui and ndovu, under telkom.co.ke. Sixteen of eighteen sampled addresses returned one of the four.
• The registered holder is still recorded as Kenyan Post & Telecommunications Company / Telkom Kenya Ltd, both names in one field.
• Every block that resolves carries the same organisation netname, ORG-KPTC1-AFRINIC.

Interesting

• Giraffe, hippo, leopard and elephant, one per range. These are router names, not host names — thousands of addresses answer with a single label because the reverse zone is delegated at the block and the aggregation router replies for all of it. Whoever built this named the machines and let the addresses inherit.
• The holder field is a merger and a demerger at once. The post and telecommunications monopoly was separated into a postal service and a telephone company, and the registry kept both names joined by a slash rather than choose between them.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 62.24.96.0/19
• 102.166.0.0/15
• 154.122.0.0/15
• 196.202.192.0/19
• 197.156.128.0/18
• 212.49.64.0/19
• 2c0f:fb60::/32

Upstream networks

• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Downstream networks

• AS328636 Jambo telecoms limited
• AS37301 (AfriNIC) Ltd - African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd

Adjacent networks

• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS328636 Jambo telecoms limited
• AS37301 (AfriNIC) Ltd - African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC

Internet exchanges

• Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi — Nairobi, Kenya