AS37105 — RAIN-GROUP-HOLDINGS

AS37105 announces 14 IPv4 prefixes covering 279,808 addresses and 3 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

RAIN-GROUP-HOLDINGS is the autonomous system for rain, a major South African mobile and fixed-line telecommunications provider.

What it's used for

• The address space carries consumer and enterprise traffic, evidenced by reverse DNS entries such as rain-41-56-64-0.rain.network and rain-197-185-64-0.rain.network.
• With 279,808 IPv4 addresses announced across 22 prefixes and 23 observed neighbours, the ratio indicates an access network serving a large subscriber base rather than a transit provider.

Notable

• Registrants consistently identify as RAIN GROUP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD or rain admin role, aligning with the AS holder.
• The inventory is finely subdivided into numerous /16, /17, /18, and smaller blocks, reflecting a large-scale internal corporate estate segmented by service or region.
• The AS has been observed in routing tables since 2009, indicating a long-standing presence in the South African internet infrastructure.

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

Announced prefixes

• 41.56.0.0/16
• 41.73.32.0/19
• 41.208.192.0/18
• 41.213.0.0/18
• 41.213.64.0/20
• 41.213.96.0/19
• 41.216.192.0/20
• 41.242.192.0/18
• 196.2.96.0/20
• 196.2.112.0/21
• 196.2.120.0/22
• 196.2.125.0/24
• 196.46.64.0/21
• 197.184.0.0/15
• 2001:43e8::/32
• 2c0e:8000::/24
• 2c0f:ffd8::/32

Upstream networks

• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS37468 Angola Cables
• AS36994 Vodacom
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS3741 Dimension Data

Downstream networks

• AS329139 Mthinte Communication Pty Ltd
• AS328365 Edge connect (pty) Ltd
• AS14789 Cloudflare, Inc.

Adjacent networks

• AS37662 West Indian Ocean Cable Company
• AS37468 Angola Cables
• AS36994 Vodacom
• AS329139 Mthinte Communication Pty Ltd
• AS328365 Edge connect (pty) Ltd
• AS6939 Hurricane Electric LLC
• AS14789 Cloudflare, Inc.
• AS3741 Dimension Data

Internet exchanges

• NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg — Johannesburg, South Africa
• NAPAfrica IX Cape Town — Cape Town, South Africa
• Johannesburg Internet Exchange — Johannesburg, South Africa
• Cape Town Internet Exchange — Cape Town, South Africa