AS15808 — ACCESSKENYA-KE - IDDQD-AS

AS15808 announces 6 IPv4 prefixes covering 86,016 addresses and 2 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Half the reverse names sit on a misspelled version of the company's own domain, and the AS name ends in a video game cheat code.

What it's used for

• A provider's network. Sixty-seven IPv4 prefixes and two IPv6 /32s announced from Kenya, eighty-six thousand and sixteen addresses, across thirty-six observed BGP neighbours.

Notable

• Eight answering names use the company's domain. Four more use the same name with one letter dropped, on a different top-level domain, and those four resolve just as well as the correct ones.
• Both forms write the four octets in forward order with the dots kept, so each octet is its own label.
• One further name belongs to a customer's mail server on an unrelated domain.
• The AS name string ends in a five-character token best known as a cheat code from a nineteen-nineties shooting game, followed by the two letters for an autonomous system.
• The AS handle runs on into a prose sentence describing the company, and the sentence is cut off mid-clause.
• Every netname is the same organisation handle generated by the registry, so no block has a name of its own. One block's lookup failed.
• Of eighteen addresses queried, twelve returned a name.

Interesting

• A typo in a reverse zone is normally invisible, because nobody reads reverse names and nothing checks them against the forward ones. Here it was registered as a real domain and wired up, so the mistake has been serving answers for years.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.206.32.0/19
• 41.215.0.0/17
• 41.220.112.0/20
• 196.200.16.0/20
• 196.207.16.0/20
• 197.254.0.0/17
• 2c0f:fe88::/32
• 2c0f:ff90::/32

Upstream networks

• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited
• AS8966 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS328977 Wavex Internet Service Provider LTD
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.

Downstream networks

• AS12556 Internet Solutions (Kenya)
• AS37019 INTERSAT AFRICA LTD
• AS328637 Travelport Services (Kenya) Limited
• AS37156 Xtranet Communications Ltd
• AS36975 NCBA Bank Kenya Plc
• AS37166 Kenya Airways
• AS328087 Unga Holdings Limited
• AS328978 Dew CIS Solutions Limited
• AS329239 Xcobean Systems Limited
• AS328465 INTEGRATED PAYMENT SERVICES LIMITED
• AS36904 Craft Silicon Ltd
• AS37535 PAYNET KENYA LIMITED
• AS327753 SBM BANK (KENYA) LIMITED
• AS327766 TECH PITCH LTD
• AS32806 MTNSAT Holdings LLC
• AS329026 Kenyaweb.com Limited
• AS328846 First Basics Technologies Limited
• AS328089 Kenya Revenue Authority
• AS328132 Bank Of Africa Kenya Limited
• AS329002 Pan African IX Data Centres Kenya Ltd
• AS328201 Elige Communications Limited
• AS36948 Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC)
• AS329562 SERVERLINK SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Adjacent networks

• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS58453 China Mobile International Limited
• AS8966 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC
• AS37100 SEACOM Limited
• AS12556 Internet Solutions (Kenya)
• AS37019 INTERSAT AFRICA LTD
• AS328637 Travelport Services (Kenya) Limited
• AS37156 Xtranet Communications Ltd
• AS36975 NCBA Bank Kenya Plc
• AS37166 Kenya Airways
• AS328977 Wavex Internet Service Provider LTD
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS5511 Orange S.A.
• AS6762 TELECOM ITALIA SPARKLE S.p.A.
• AS328087 Unga Holdings Limited
• AS328978 Dew CIS Solutions Limited
• AS329239 Xcobean Systems Limited
• AS36904 Craft Silicon Ltd
• AS328465 INTEGRATED PAYMENT SERVICES LIMITED
• AS37535 PAYNET KENYA LIMITED
• AS327753 SBM BANK (KENYA) LIMITED
• AS327766 TECH PITCH LTD
• AS32806 MTNSAT Holdings LLC
• AS329026 Kenyaweb.com Limited
• AS328846 First Basics Technologies Limited

Routing security

• RPKI: 0 valid, 0 invalid and 73 not-found announcements; 0 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 77% of announcements registered; 210 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-15808, AS-37662, AS-ACCESSKENYA, AS-BTELEKOM, AS-BTN-CUSTOMERS, AS-CN2, AS-COMMSOL, AS-EMIX, AS-HURRICANE, AS-HURRICANEV6, AS-INTELSATUS, AS-ISZA, AS-KDDCUSTOMER2, AS-LIQUID-EXT, AS-OPENTRANSIT, AS-SEABONECUSTMEAF, AS-SET-DSPRD, AS-SET-SEACOM, AS-SET-SEACOM, AS-SET-SEACOM-CUSTOMERS-CUSTOMER, AS-SET-SEACOM-CUSTOMERS-CUSTOMER, AS-SET-TPKEPEERS, AS-SKYVISION-2, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS-WIOCC.

Internet exchanges

• Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi — Nairobi, Kenya