196.2.16.0/20

OPTINET-01-19940228 IPv4 South Africa ALLOCATED PA AS5713

Registration

AFRINIC

Range: 196.2.16.0 to 196.2.31.255
CIDR: 196.2.16.0/20
Addresses: 4,096
Net name: OPTINET-01-19940228
Description: Dimension Data
Holder: Dimension Data ORG-DD1-AFRINIC
Status: ALLOCATED PA
Abuse contact: Not published
Last updated: 2026-04-26

Routing

Covered by 196.2.16.0/24 from AS5713 Telkom SA Ltd.. RPKI invalid

Covering allocations

Range	Net name	Status
196.0.0.0 - 196.255.255.255	ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC-20050414	ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED

More specific assignments

Range	Net name	Country
196.2.22.0 - 196.2.22.255	IGNITE-NET-196-2-22-0
196.2.25.0 - 196.2.25.255	IGNITE-NET-196-2-25-0
196.2.29.0 - 196.2.29.255	IGNITE-NET-196-2-29-0
196.2.31.56 - 196.2.31.63	MWEB-NETGRO

WHOIS

inetnum:        196.2.16.0 - 196.2.31.255
netname:        OPTINET-01-19940228
descr:          Dimension Data
country:        ZA
org:            ORG-DD1-AFRINIC
status:         ALLOCATED PA
source:         AFRINIC

organisation:   ORG-DD1-AFRINIC
org-name:       Dimension Data
country:        ZA

Location of the first address

South Africa

Registry country

Report wrong location

API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://ip-fd.net/api/v1/network/196.2.16.0/20

const res = await fetch('https://ip-fd.net/api/v1/network/196.2.16.0/20', {
  headers: { 'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_KEY' }
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

r = requests.get('https://ip-fd.net/api/v1/network/196.2.16.0/20', headers={'X-API-Key': 'YOUR_KEY'}, timeout=10)
r.raise_for_status()
print(r.json())

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://ip-fd.net/api/v1/network/196.2.16.0/20');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
print_r($data);

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://ip-fd.net/api/v1/network/196.2.16.0/20", nil)
req.Header.Set("X-API-Key", "YOUR_KEY")
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))

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