AS10998 BAC-MLAMRS

BAC-MLAMRS is registered to Bank of America, National Association, the banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The handle is an internal department code, not a company name — the holder record is the only thing that identifies it.

What it's used for

This is a corporate enterprise network, not a service provider. RIS observes just two announced IPv4 prefixes — 199.43.72.0/24 and 199.43.44.0/24, 512 addresses in total — no IPv6, and a single observed BGP neighbour. That shape is diagnostic: a network that exists to attach one organisation's own systems to the internet, reachable through a single upstream, with none of the peering breadth a transit carrier or an access provider would show.

Two isolated /24s from separate parts of the same legacy /16 are the classic footprint of externally-facing enterprise infrastructure — the small, deliberately-sized public surface a bank exposes while the overwhelming majority of its estate stays on private address space behind it. Nothing here suggests customer-facing hosting or connectivity resale.

Notable

The ASN dates to 1998 and predates Bank of America's 2008–2009 acquisition of Merrill Lynch, which is one reason a large financial group ends up holding several separately-registered autonomous systems inherited from merged institutions. No conclusion should be drawn about which business unit the number originally served: the handle's meaning is internal to the holder, and guessing at it would be invention.

The sampled addresses returned no reverse DNS. That is a sample of four addresses and proves nothing about the zone or about any intended posture — it is recorded here only so the absence is not later mistaken for a finding.