AS12556 — internet-solutions-ke

AS12556 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 17,408 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

A Kenyan ISP holding address space from three different registries' ranges, all under one AFRINIC org handle.

What it's used for

• Internet access and transit in East Africa. 17,408 addresses in four IPv4 prefixes, ten observed BGP neighbours, and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• The four blocks come from very different parts of the address space: 165.90.0.0/19, 212.22.160.0/19, and two adjacent /23s at 102.217.132.0 and 102.217.134.0.
• Every one of them carries the same netname, ORG-IL11-AFRINIC — an organisation handle standing in where a network name belongs.
• All are registered to Internet Solutions (Kenya).
• First seen in routing data in July 2006, a real date rather than the floor of the archive.

Interesting

• Those three ranges are a map of how African networks got numbered. 102 is AFRINIC's own block, issued after the registry was founded; 212 came from the European registry, which served the continent before that; and 165 is older still, from the era when large blocks were handed out centrally. One ISP's inventory contains the whole sequence.
• Using an org handle as the netname on every block is a registry-side convention rather than an operator's choice. It means the records describe who holds the space and decline to describe what any of it is for.
• The two 102.217 /23s touch end to end but are announced separately, which is the familiar tell that they were issued as two grants rather than one.

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

Announced prefixes

• 102.217.132.0/22
• 165.90.0.0/19
• 212.22.160.0/19

Upstream networks

• AS15808 IDDQD-AS
• AS3741 Dimension Data

Downstream networks

• AS328754 DIAMOND TRUST BANK UGANDA LIMITED
• AS328883 Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited
• AS328705 Victoria Commercial Bank Limited
• AS328477 African Banking Corporation Limited
• AS328836 SIDIAN BANK LIMITED
• AS328292 AGENT BANKING COMPANY OF UGANDA
• AS13150 CATO NETWORKS LTD

Adjacent networks

• AS15808 IDDQD-AS
• AS328754 DIAMOND TRUST BANK UGANDA LIMITED
• AS328883 Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Limited
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS328705 Victoria Commercial Bank Limited
• AS328477 African Banking Corporation Limited
• AS328836 SIDIAN BANK LIMITED
• AS328292 AGENT BANKING COMPANY OF UGANDA
• AS20294 MTN Uganda
• AS13150 CATO NETWORKS LTD

Internet exchanges

• Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi — Nairobi, Kenya
• Uganda Internet Exchange — Kampala, Uganda