Autonomous system
AS9829 BSNL-NIB National Internet Backbone
Residential APNIC
Summary
BSNL (India)
isp eyeball backbone
BSNL's National Internet Backbone (BSNL-NIB) — the network of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, India's state-owned telecom operator.
What it's used for
- Fixed broadband and backbone connectivity across India, including many rural and smaller-town areas where private carriers are thinner.
Notable
- State-owned "eyeball" network; the "NIB" (National Internet Backbone) is its long-running domestic IP network.
Interesting
- BSNL has historically carried broadband into parts of India underserved by the private operators, giving it wide but sometimes older-technology coverage.
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 7 exchanges in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Mumbai | Mumbai, India | 103.27.170.24 |
| National Internet Exchange of India - Mumbai | Mumbai, India | 103.156.182.86 |
| National Internet Exchange of India - New Delhi | New Delhi, India | 218.100.48.15 |
| DE-CIX Delhi | New Delhi, India | 103.27.168.124 |
| National Internet Exchange of India - Chennai | Chennai, India | 103.218.247.24 |
| DE-CIX Chennai | Chennai, India | 103.228.174.24 |
| DE-CIX Kolkata | Kolkata, India | 103.228.172.24 |
Transit providers
14 upstream, 75 downstream and 120 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS9498 | BHARTI Airtel Ltd. | 60,732 |
| AS4755 | TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP | 21,573 |
| AS174 | Cogent Communications, LLC | 21,156 |
| AS55836 | Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited | 11,021 |
| AS2914 | NTT America, Inc. | 8,591 |
| AS1299 | Arelion Sweden AB | 7,388 |
| AS45489 | Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, GLobal Peering | 6,776 |
| AS6453 | TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC | 6,761 |
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
IPv4 675 prefixes · 6.16M addresses IPv6 147 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| IN | India | 822 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS9829- Registry name
- BSNL-NIB
- Registrant
- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
- Abuse contact
- abuse1@bsnl.co.in
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-25
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.9% valid · 3,042 valid, 0 with no ROA 3 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 3,519 authorising AS9829
- ASPA
- 19 declared providers
- IRR
- 99.5% registered · 3,030 of 3,045 announcements 10 other origin
- Route objects
- 32,011 naming AS9829
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