Autonomous system
AS3176 BDL
Unclassified RIPE
IPv4 addresses
768
3 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly LB
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Banque du Liban
government finance legacy
The autonomous system of Banque du Liban (BDL), Lebanon's central bank,
headquartered in Beirut.
What it's used for
- Corporate and operational networking for the central bank itself: internal systems, public-facing services, and connectivity to the Lebanese banking sector it supervises.
- A small allocation by any measure — a few hundred addresses, sized for one institution rather than for selling connectivity onward.
Notable
- Central banks that run their own ASN generally do it for the same reasons: to multi-home across local carriers so payments and settlement infrastructure survives the loss of any single upstream, and to keep their address space independent of an ISP.
- This is a government/central-bank address block, not an eyeball network. Any traffic from it is institutional.
Interesting
- Low four-digit AS numbers like this come from an early RIPE NCC range, issued long before today's five-digit and 32-bit numbers. The number says nothing about the size of the network behind it — this one is tiny.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| LB | Lebanon | 3 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS3176- Registry name
- BDL
- Registrant
- LB-TERRANET
- Abuse contact
- ripe-admin@terra.net.lb
- Registered
- 2012-04-26
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere