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Autonomous system

AS7482 APOL-AS Asia Pacific On-line Service Inc.

Residential APNIC

IPv4 addresses 544K 199 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes 1 counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries 1 mostly TW
Exchanges 0 recorded by PCH
Upstreams 1 0 downstream
Flagged prefixes 0 none

Summary

Asia Pacific On-line Service Inc. (APOL)

Taiwan · AI-generated

isp legacy

APOL-AS is APOL (亞太線上), a Taiwanese fixed-line ISP that began operating in 2001 under Eastern Broadband Telecommunications, was merged into Asia Pacific Telecom in 2011, and passed to Far EasTone when Far EasTone absorbed the Asia Pacific Telecom group at the end of 2023.

What it's used for

  • Consumer and business broadband access in Taiwan. Reverse DNS across the space is unambiguous subscriber naming: …adsl.dynamic.apol.com.tw, …cm.dynamic.apol.com.tw (cable modem) and …vdslpro.static.apol.com.tw.
  • The footprint is large, roughly 544,000 IPv4 addresses across ~78 prefixes, much of it in /18s. That is eyeball-network scale, not hosting scale.

Notable

  • APOL also ran IDC and colocation services in its independent days, but the routed space today reads overwhelmingly as access: dial-era ADSL, cable and VDSL pools rather than servers.
  • The hostname prefixes encode Taiwanese cities (kh for Kaohsiung, ch for Changhua, nk for Nankan among them), a small map of the network's regional footprint hiding in the reverse DNS.

Interesting

  • Three corporate owners in twenty-odd years, and the apol.com.tw naming has survived all of them. Subscriber reverse-DNS zones are among the stickiest things in a network: renaming millions of PTR records is rarely worth anyone's trouble.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.

Interconnection

Peering at a glance

Full topology · Graph

Internet exchanges

No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.

Transit providers

1 upstream, 0 downstream and 2 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.

ASNetworkPaths seen
AS17709Asia Pacific Telecom4,519

Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-11, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.

Address space

Summary

Shape and geography

IPv4 199 prefixes · 544K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes

CountryNamePrefixes
TWTaiwan, Province of China200

Registry

Allocation record

APNIC · via Atlas (registry + RDAP)
Registry
APNIC
Handle
AS7482
Registry name
APOL-AS
Abuse contact
davidlin1@fareastone.com.tw
Registered
2008-09-04
Last changed
2025-11-06
Allocation
allocated

Routing security

RPKI and IRR

Full detail
RPKI
94% valid · 72 valid, 5 with no ROA
ROAs
46 authorising AS7482
ASPA
no ASPA record
IRR
100% registered · 77 of 77 announcements
Route objects
204 naming AS7482

Reputation

Classification and threat

Residential Fixed-line consumer ISP. Addresses here are homes.

Spamhaus DROP

Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.

No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.

Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,768 prefixes, as published 2026-10-12. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.

FBI IC3

No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.

IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.

Elsewhere

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