AS36898 — Black Currant Consultant cc - Black Currant Consultant cc

AS36898 announces 45 IPv4 prefixes covering 15,616 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

Currant is operated by Black Currant Consultant cc, a South African internet service provider.

What it's used for

• The address space carries mixed traffic, with reverse DNS entries pointing to currant.co.za for the 41.207.236.0/22 block and techvpsnext.com for the majority of the 154.214.x.x space, indicating both direct ISP services and VPS hosting.
• The AS announces 9984 IPv4 addresses across 25 prefixes while maintaining only 2 observed neighbours, a ratio that suggests a regional access or hosting network rather than a transit provider.

Notable

• Registrants are split between Black Currant Consultant cc for the 41.207.236.0/22 block and Cloud Innovation Ltd for the 154.214.x.x blocks, with several smaller prefixes showing unknown registrants.
• The address inventory is fragmented into numerous /23 and /24 blocks within the 154.214.0.0/16 range, alongside a single /22 in 41.207.0.0/16 and a /24 in 169.255.0.0/16.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.207.236.0/22
• 45.200.133.0/24
• 154.214.194.0/24
• 154.214.210.0/24
• 154.214.212.0/24
• 154.214.214.0/23
• 154.214.216.0/23
• 154.214.221.0/24
• 154.214.222.0/23
• 154.214.231.0/24
• 154.214.236.0/24
• 154.214.238.0/24
• 154.214.240.0/24
• 154.214.242.0/23
• 154.214.244.0/24
• 154.214.246.0/24
• 154.214.249.0/24
• 154.214.250.0/24
• 154.214.252.0/24
• 156.235.88.0/24
• 156.235.122.0/23
• 156.238.116.0/24
• 156.239.55.0/24
• 156.239.60.0/24
• 156.239.156.0/23
• 156.245.1.0/24
• 156.245.3.0/24
• 156.245.4.0/23
• 156.245.6.0/24
• 156.245.12.0/23
• 156.245.14.0/24
• 156.245.16.0/24
• 156.245.18.0/23
• 156.245.28.0/23
• 156.245.31.0/24
• 156.245.138.0/24
• 156.245.141.0/24
• 156.245.142.0/23
• 156.245.161.0/24
• 156.245.162.0/24
• 156.245.169.0/24
• 156.245.170.0/23
• 156.245.195.0/24
• 156.245.208.0/23
• 169.255.173.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS328608 Africa on Cloud
• AS37315 Cipherwave

Adjacent networks

• AS328608 Africa on Cloud
• AS37315 Cipherwave

Routing security

• RPKI: 99 valid, 0 invalid and 6 not-found announcements; 320 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 380 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-37662, AS-AIRPARK-NAP-CT1-PEERS, AS-AIRPARK-NAP-JB1-PEERS, AS-AOC, AS-CIPHERWAVE, AS-CIPHERWAVE-TRANSIT, AS-CURRANT, AS-GWCOMMS, AS-HURRICANE, AS-IS-INT, AS-ISZA, AS-MACROLAN-TRANSIT, AS-MACROLAN-TRANSIT, AS-MTN-TRANSIT, AS-MTNBUSINESS-TRANSIT, AS-MTNNS, AS-MTNNS-TRANSIT, AS-TRANSROUTE-SPEC, AS-WIOCC, AS-XO-B, AS3741:AS-IS-INT, AS3741:AS-ISZA, AS58453:AS-AFRICAASCUST, AS58453:AS-AFRICAASCUST.

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Cape Town — Cape Town, South Africa