AS14115 — AMALGAMATED-BSA

AS14115 announces 37 IPv4 prefixes covering 14,336 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

One bank cuts a single range into 37 announcements, and the netname on every one of them is the registry's internal organisation handle.

What it's used for

• A bank's own network. 14,336 addresses across 37 IPv4 prefixes, with 20 observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 announced.

Notable

• Every block that resolved carries the netname ORG-ABSA1-AFRINIC, registered to ABSA (Amalgamated Banks of South Africa).
• All 37 prefixes come from 169.202, and most of them are single /24s.
• The lookup for 169.202.196.0/23 failed, so nothing is known about that record.
• Eighteen addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.

Interesting

• A netname that is the registry's own organisation identifier, suffix included, is a record generated from the database rather than described by a person. It is stable, unique and says nothing about the network.
• Thirty-seven announcements out of one range, on 20 neighbours, is a bank routing branches and sites individually. Each /24 can be withdrawn or moved without touching the others, which matters when a site goes offline and the rest must not.
• Twenty neighbours is high for an enterprise. A bank in a country with expensive international transit buys locally from everyone it can, and each of those is an adjacency.
• Holding space in a range issued long before the regional registry existed, now filed under that registry's handle, records the whole history of address administration on the continent in one field.

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

Announced prefixes

• 169.202.5.0/24
• 169.202.6.0/24
• 169.202.9.0/24
• 169.202.13.0/24
• 169.202.39.0/24
• 169.202.40.0/23
• 169.202.43.0/24
• 169.202.45.0/24
• 169.202.85.0/24
• 169.202.86.0/24
• 169.202.117.0/24
• 169.202.118.0/24
• 169.202.120.0/24
• 169.202.135.0/24
• 169.202.136.0/23
• 169.202.139.0/24
• 169.202.140.0/24
• 169.202.176.0/21
• 169.202.184.0/22
• 169.202.188.0/24
• 169.202.190.0/24
• 169.202.194.0/24
• 169.202.196.0/23
• 169.202.207.0/24
• 169.202.208.0/23
• 169.202.211.0/24
• 169.202.212.0/23
• 169.202.214.0/24
• 169.202.216.0/22
• 169.202.220.0/24
• 169.202.222.0/24
• 169.202.224.0/24
• 169.202.231.0/24
• 169.202.232.0/24
• 169.202.235.0/24
• 169.202.236.0/23
• 169.202.241.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS198949 Radware Ltd
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS327782 Metro Fibre Networx (Pty) Ltd
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Adjacent networks

• AS198949 Radware Ltd
• AS3741 Dimension Data
• AS30844 Liquid Telecommunications Ltd
• AS327782 Metro Fibre Networx (Pty) Ltd
• AS3257 GTT Communications Inc.
• AS37721 Virtual Technologies & Solutions

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Cape Town — Cape Town, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Durban — Durban, South Africa