Public-Good Internet Infrastructure
Network Citizenship
We operate as part of the public internet, not just on top of it. Our Nairobi infrastructure runs open measurement, anti-censorship relays, and operator-community services — free, for anyone, on AS329239.
A connectivity operator’s job isn’t just to sell ports. The internet works because thousands of organisations volunteer time, hardware, and capacity to run shared services — measurement probes, looking glasses, time, mirrors, anti-censorship. Xcobean does its share from a colocated node at PAIX Nairobi, on our own hardware, transit, and AFRINIC address space.
Live · Measurement
Probes running right now
Four global measurement networks have nodes at our Nairobi PoP, contributing daily data to operator, academic, and transparency research.
OONI Probe
Daily measurements of network interference (blocking, throttling, censorship) uploaded to OONI Explorer as AS329239 / KE — websites, IM apps, circumvention tools.
explorer.ooni.org/network/AS329239 →
CAIDA Ark wil-ke
Active topology probing for UC San Diego’s Archipelago platform — feeds the public IPv4/IPv6 topology graph used by hundreds of academic studies.
caida.org/projects/ark · monitor wil-ke →
RIPE Atlas Probe
A RIPE NCC Atlas hardware probe contributing continuous latency, traceroute, and DNS measurements visible to the global research community.
atlas.ripe.net/probes/1015858/overview →
NLNOG RING
A network-operator measurement & troubleshooting node usable by 600+ NLNOG RING participants worldwide to diagnose paths to/from Kenya in real time. IPv4 + IPv6 dual-stack.
ring.nlnog.net →
Live · Operator Services
Open services for the network community
Self-serve tooling and machine-readable data for operators, researchers, and developers building on top of our network.
Public Looking Glass
Hyperglass-powered LG against our VyOS edge router. Run BGP route lookups, ping, traceroute, and AS-path queries from the PAIX Nairobi vantage point.
lgke.xcobean.com →
Status JSON Feed
Machine-readable service status for uptime aggregators and customer apps — per-service operational state, incidents, regions, plus overall posture.
xcobean.co.ke/api/v1/status →
Open Peering Data
Machine-readable peering metadata at /peering/peering.txt — AS, AS-SET, IXPs, contacts, policy, LG, status. PeeringDB profile is kept in sync.
peeringdb.com/asn/329239 · peering.txt →
Live · Open Internet Infrastructure
Shared infrastructure for the East African internet
Free public services running on our own hardware in Nairobi — used by anyone, not just our customers.
Open Linux Mirror
13 distributions mirrored locally — Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, Rocky, AlmaLinux, OPNsense, pfSense, F-Droid, PyPI, VyOS — cuts apt/yum/pip times for everyone in the region.
mirror.xcobean.co.ke →
Ookla Speedtest Server
Registered Ookla endpoint in Nairobi — pickable from any Speedtest.net app or speedtest-cli session, sponsored as Xcobean Systems Limited.
speedtest.xcobean.co.ke:8080 →
Globalping Probe
Public Globalping endpoint — anyone in the world can run ping / traceroute / mtr / dig / HTTP from our Nairobi PoP via the Globalping API, CLI, or web UI.
globalping.io · network:"Xcobean Systems" →
NTP Time Server
Public chrony NTP server in the pool.ntp.org rotation under the @africa + ke zones — currently serving ~7.9% of all KE pool.ntp.org queries with score 20/20.
ntp.xcobean.co.ke · 102.212.230.8 →
In the pipeline
Coming online next
Additional public-good services being readied — each will move to the “Live” section as it goes online.
OpenNIC DNS Resolver
Recursive DNS with both ICANN and OpenNIC TLDs. DNSSEC-validating.
dns.xcobean.co.ke
Tor Bridge + Snowflake
An obfs4 Tor bridge (XcoBeanKE) plus a Snowflake relay — supporting users in censored networks.
obfs4 / snowflake
Psiphon Conduit
A Psiphon Conduit volunteer node providing reachability to users in restrictive networks.
(dedicated container)
Operator
How it’s plumbed
All services announced via our own AFRINIC ASN; AS-SET AS-XCOBEAN.
Carrier-neutral facility, local peering at KIXP for low latency.
Native v6 for everything we publish.
Want to host a public-good service from our racks?
Operating a research probe, an anti-censorship relay, a regional mirror, or a measurement endpoint? We provide free colocation + transit for credible public-good projects on a case-by-case basis.
Talk to us →