AS3176 — BDL

AS3176 announces 3 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

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.

Announced prefixes

• 5.57.1.0/24
• 78.108.173.0/24
• 185.104.69.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS39010 TerraNet sal
• AS48847 WAVES S.A.L
• AS9051 Data Management sal

Adjacent networks

• AS48847 WAVES S.A.L
• AS39010 TerraNet sal
• AS9051 Data Management sal