AS857

AS857 is an active autonomous system registered to GONET, the Government of Ontario Network — the internal enterprise WAN of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) — and it currently announces 4 IPv4 prefixes (1,536 addresses) and zero IPv6 space, a routing picture confirmed independently by RIPEstat, CAIDA, and ARIN RDAP.

ARIN RDAP records the autnum under registry name GONET-ASN-17, with a top-level registration event dated 1990-08-07 and a last-changed event dated 2021-02-23; this is confirmed by two independent direct RDAP fetches. The block registration GONET-ASN-17 spans AS857–AS885 under the same registrant. The registrant entity (handle GOVER-10) lists "Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services," a legacy ministry name — Ontario's current equivalent ministry, per ontario.ca, is the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement.

Routing-wise, CAIDA places AS857 at ASRank 30358 with AS degree total 2 (2 providers, 0 peers, 0 customers) and a singleton customer cone (itself only, 4 prefixes, 1,536 addresses) — a stub government network with no downstream customers. bgp.he.net names the two upstream/peer relationships as AS19752 (Hydro One Telecom) and AS577 (Bell Canada), though this identity detail is single-sourced against CAIDA's count-only data. All 4 announced prefixes validate as RPKI "unknown" (no covering ROA) via the Routinator validator.

Multiple AI-generated search summaries encountered during research incorrectly attributed AS857 to a "United States Department of Defense Network" and separately inflated its footprint to "500 IPv4 and 500 IPv6 prefixes." Both claims are contradicted by direct ARIN RDAP, PeeringDB API, and RIPEstat/CAIDA data, all of which consistently show the Government of Ontario as registrant and 4 IPv4 / 0 IPv6 prefixes announced; the hallucinated claims are excluded from this record.

Operator

GONET (Government of Ontario Network / "OPS Network"), Ontario Public Service, Infrastructure Technology Services; registrant entity GOVER-10 lists legacy name "Ministry of Government Services," current equivalent is Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/857, ontario.ca (Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement 2025-26 plan page)

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — CAIDA ASRank (country.iso=CA); RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder (authoritative_rir: arin)

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event, handle AS857 / name GONET-ASN-17); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed for allocated_date, per two independent direct RDAP fetches; Likely for last-changed, single source] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/857

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP autnum status = "active"); operated by the Government of Ontario's Ontario Public Service under Infrastructure Technology Services [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/857

Contacts

abuse contact CSOC@ontario.ca; website listed in PeeringDB as ontario.ca (no dedicated GONET-branded public site found) [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder, peeringdb.com/asn/857

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of a 2026-08-09 search — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP, CleanTalk (0% spam rate), NANOG archives, or general news search; AbuseIPDB check was access-gated (HTTP 403) and could not be independently verified

Network & routing

Network type

government enterprise network — internal WAN for the Ontario Public Service (PeeringDB info_type = "Government") [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/857, ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Size

4 IPv4 prefixes / 1,536 IPv4 addresses; 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 4 prefixes, 1,536 addresses [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net announced-prefixes/routing-status, api.asrank.caida.org (2026-08)

Routing/peering

CAIDA AS degree total=2 (provider=2, peer=0, customer=0); bgp.he.net names the 2 relationships as AS19752 (Hydro One Telecom) and AS577 (Bell Canada) [Confirmed for degree counts; Likely for named identities, single source]. PeeringDB policy_general = "Restrictive," no IXP presence recorded [Confirmed]

RPKI

not RPKI-protected — all 4 announced prefixes (142.15.64.0/23, 142.15.0.0/23, 142.15.63.0/24, 142.15.127.0/24) validate as "unknown" (no covering ROA) via Routinator [Confirmed] — stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation-status

Notable usage

internal enterprise WAN carrying Ontario provincial-government data, voice, and video traffic per Ontario's own GO-ITS 57.1 QoS standard; no evidence of any public-facing, transit, or hosting role [Confirmed] — ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Related ASNs

AS857–AS885 form the GONET-ASN-17 block registration under the same registrant; AS19752 (Hydro One Telecom) and AS577 (Bell Canada) observed as the two upstream/peer relationships [Confirmed for block; Likely for peer identities] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/857, bgp.he.net/AS857

Analyst note

identity is well-corroborated across ARIN RDAP, PeeringDB, and RIPEstat/CAIDA as GONET, the Government of Ontario's internal network — not the "US Department of Defense Network" that recurring AI search-summary artifacts asserted during this research; that claim is a hallucination and is excluded from every field above.