Autonomous system
AS9230 BOL-BD-AP Bangladesh Online Ltd.
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Bangladesh Online (BOL)
isp legacy
AS9230 (BOL-BD-AP) is held by Bangladesh Online Limited, an established Bangladeshi internet service provider trading as BOL and part of the BEXIMCO group. It sells internet access, hosting and managed IT services, with its network centred on Dhaka.
What it's used for
This is a working access ISP, and the reverse DNS says so plainly. Nearly every sampled address resolves under bol-online.com, in a mix of formulaic customer naming (IP-96-005.bol-online.com, 103.129.244-005.bol-online.com, 42.5.bol-online.com) and named infrastructure hosts (mx3.bol-online.com, mx5.bol-online.com, switch01ep.dhaka.net). Customer-address templating plus in-house mail and switch records is the signature of a provider that both connects subscribers and runs services for them.
The routing backs it up. RIS sees 95 IPv4 prefixes carrying 17,920 addresses, 9 IPv6 prefixes, and 30 observed neighbours. Ninety-five announcements for under 18,000 addresses means heavy deaggregation: the estate is built out of a 182.163.96.0/19, a 202.84.32.0/20 and a 122.144.8.0/21 sliced down to /22s, /23s and smaller, plus later 103.x allocations. Thirty neighbours is a healthy local peering count for a national ISP — enough to show real presence at Bangladeshi exchange infrastructure, but nowhere near the fan-out of a wholesale carrier.
Notable
- The
dhaka.netPTR on a switch address is a second domain the operator uses for infrastructure naming. - The estate spans both older
202.x/122.xAPNIC space and newer103.xallocations, the usual pattern for a long-running provider that kept growing after the early blocks ran out.
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
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 2 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 103.161.216.65 |
| Bangladesh Internet Exchange | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 103.151.196.20 |
Transit providers
4 upstream, 26 downstream and 33 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 11 prefixes · 17.66K addresses IPv6 17 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| BD | Bangladesh | 28 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9230- Registry name
- BOL-BD-AP
- Registrant
- Bangladesh Online Ltd
- Abuse contact
- tech.mgt@bol-online.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2022-08-07
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 104 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 26 authorising AS9230
- ASPA
- 4 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 104 of 104 announcements
- Route objects
- 660 naming AS9230
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
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 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. 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