AS825

AS825 is a long-dormant Canadian government ASN — registered to the Canadian Forces Weather Services (CFWS-NET), a Department of National Defence meteorological unit — that has announced zero IPv4 or IPv6 prefixes since mid-2018.

ARIN RDAP records the autnum's top-level registration date as 1994-05-04, and the network name CFWS-NET points to a military weather-forecasting operation rather than a commercial ISP. The registrant address traces to the CF Forecast Centre in Edmonton, Alberta.

Historically, AS825 originated exactly one prefix, 192.16.240.0/20 (roughly 4,096 addresses), visible from 2009-10-15 to 2018-07-16 per RIPEstat and bgp.he.net; it has not been seen in the global routing table since. One angle flags that this block overlaps an ARIN-maintained bogon range, which would make the historical announcement a legacy data-quality artifact rather than genuine production traffic — that read is single-sourced and tagged accordingly.

CAIDA's AS Rank places AS825 at 79,459 with a customer cone of exactly one ASN (itself) and zero prefixes or addresses, consistent with complete routing inactivity. No PeeringDB record exists for the ASN, and no upstreams, peers, or IX memberships could be confirmed from any source. RPKI validation does not apply because there are no current announcements to check against ROAs.

ARIN's registration status for AS825 is still Active, but the listed administrative/technical contact has reportedly gone unresponsive to ARIN validation attempts since 2010, suggesting the record is stale even though it has not been revoked or reclaimed.

Operator

Canadian Forces Weather Services (CFWS-NET), a Department of National Defence (Canadian military) meteorological unit [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/825

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/825

Allocated

1994-05-04 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, network name CFWS-NET) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/825

Org status

ARIN registration status is Active, but the administrative/technical POC (VD5-ARIN) has reportedly been unresponsive to ARIN validation attempts since 2010-06-22 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/825

Contacts

cfwsmaster@yed.ab.doe.ca; registrant address CF Forecast Centre, PO Box 10500, Edmonton, AB, T5J 4J5, Canada [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/825, https://stat.ripe.net/AS825

Website

Unknown — no official operator website or PeeringDB entry found for this ASN [Confirmed absence of a public site] — https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/825

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-01 in Spamhaus ASN-DROP or search-engine/NANOG-archive checks; the ASN has been unrouted since 2018, so absence of abuse chatter is partly explained by inactivity rather than a confirmed clean operational history

Network & routing

Network type

government/military meteorological network; legacy/inactive, not a commercial transit or eyeball ISP [Likely] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/825

Size

dormant — 0 IPv4/IPv6 prefixes currently announced; historically 1 IPv4 prefix, 192.16.240.0/20 (~4,096 addresses), seen 2009-10-15 to 2018-07-16; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 0 prefixes, 0 addresses

[Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS825, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/825, https://bgp.he.net/AS825

Routing/peering

not announced since 2018-07-16; not a CAIDA clique member and not seen in the topology graph; no PeeringDB record (peeringdb.com/asn/825 returns 404); no upstreams confirmed; one historical IPv4 peer, AS3766 (Shared Services Canada), reported by a single angle [Likely for the AS3766 peer, Confirmed for no-current-peers] — https://bgp.he.net/AS825, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/825

RPKI

not assessable — AS825 announces no current prefixes, so there is nothing to validate against ROAs [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS825

Notable usage

single historical /20 announcement between 2009 and 2018; possible overlap with an ARIN-maintained bogon range flagged by one source only, not corroborated elsewhere [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS825

Related ASNs

none confirmed as commonly operated with AS825; AS3766 (Shared Services Canada) appears only as a historical routing peer, not a sibling ASN [Unknown] — https://bgp.he.net/AS825

Analyst note

Encountered as a dormant Canadian Department of National Defence ASN (Canadian Forces Weather Services). RDAP, RIPEstat, and CAIDA agree on zero current announcements and a self-only customer cone. Community corroboration (NANOG, Reddit) is absent; upstreams, peers, and the bogon-overlap claim remain single-sourced and should be revisited if the ASN is re-researched.