AS859

AS859 is an active government-operated ASN registered to GONET, the Government of Ontario's network, and it currently announces exactly one IPv4 prefix with a single upstream — a small, single-homed footprint, not a dormant or abandoned registration.

AS859 sits inside a contiguous ARIN autnum block spanning AS857–AS885, registered to org handle GOVER-10 ("GONET"), part of the Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, in Toronto, Ontario. The block's top-level ARIN RDAP registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23; both are corroborated independently by bgp.tools, which separately states the AS "was registered on August 7, 1990."

Live routing data from bgp.he.net and bgp.tools (fetched 2026-08-08/09) shows AS859 originating a single IPv4 prefix, 204.41.226.0/24 (256 addresses), and no IPv6 prefixes. Its only observed BGP adjacency, on both sources, is AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), functioning as upstream/transit. CAIDA ranks AS859 at 67,700 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses) and an AS degree of 1 provider / 0 peers / 0 customers, corroborating the single-upstream picture from a source independent of bgp.he.net/bgp.tools. RIPEstat routing-status shows the announced prefix visible to 328 of 329 IPv4 RIS peers and 0 of 322 IPv6 peers.

AS859 has no PeeringDB network object of its own (peeringdb.com/asn/859 returns HTTP 404). A sibling ASN under the same GONET/GOVER-10 org, AS857, does have a PeeringDB record showing a Restrictive general policy and Private Only contracts; this is evidence about the operator, not a confirmed AS859-specific policy, and is tagged accordingly below.

Operator

Government of Ontario — "GONET", ARIN org handle GOVER-10, Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/859

Country / RIR

Canada, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/859

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level "registration" event for the AS857–AS885 block containing AS859); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/859, corroborated by https://bgp.tools/as/859

Org status

active — ARIN RDAP status "active" for the AS857–AS885 block [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/859

Contacts

org contacts on file under GOVER-10 — Ontario IP Administration (validated), Cyber Security Branch (unvalidated, technical/NOC/abuse/routing), Domain Registration (unvalidated, technical); no dedicated GONET public abuse mailbox located [Confirmed for RDAP roles; Unknown for a direct abuse-mail address] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/859

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not in NANOG archives, Spamhaus resource pages, or general web search for AS859 or its prefix; Spamhaus ASN-DROP API check was inconclusive (HTTP 404) rather than a confirmed negative

Network & routing

Network type

provincial government network (info_type "Government" confirmed for sibling ASN AS857 under the same org; inferred by shared-org association for AS859 itself) [Likely] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857

Size

1 IPv4 prefix announced (204.41.226.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank = 67,700; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS859, https://bgp.tools/as/859, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/859

Routing/peering

single observed upstream/peer AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), corroborated by CAIDA asnDegree (total=1, provider=1, peer=0, customer=0) and RIPEstat visibility (328 of 329 IPv4 RIS peers, 0 of 322 IPv6); no AS859-specific PeeringDB record (peeringdb.com/asn/859 returns HTTP 404); sibling AS857 (same GONET org) is Restrictive / Private Only contracts, offered as operator-level context only [Confirmed for AS852 adjacency; Likely for policy context via AS857] — https://bgp.tools/as/859, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/859, https://stat.ripe.net/859

RPKI

no ROA coverage — RIPEstat's rpki-validation (Routinator) returns status "unknown" with validating_roas: [] for 204.41.226.0/24, i.e. no covering ROA exists; bgp.he.net separately shows the announced prefix as "IRR Valid" (an IRR route-object check, a distinct fact kept separate)

[Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/859, https://bgp.he.net/AS859

Notable usage

sole production use appears to be originating 204.41.226.0/24 for Government of Ontario IT services; no additional public documentation of the network's purpose was located [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS859, https://ipinfo.io/AS859

Related ASNs

AS857 (sibling ASN, same GONET/GOVER-10 org, PeeringDB-listed); AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc., sole observed upstream) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/859, https://bgp.tools/as/859

Analyst note

small, single-prefix, single-upstream government stub network; live routing confirmed via three independent sources (bgp.he.net, bgp.tools, CAIDA asnDegree/RIPEstat visibility) agreeing on the single /24 and single AS852 adjacency. CAIDA rank 67,700 and a singleton customer cone (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) place it at the bottom of the global ranking, consistent with a minimal stub. RPKI: no ROA coverage confirmed via RIPEstat/Routinator. Peering-policy detail is borrowed from sibling AS857 and explicitly flagged as such, not asserted for AS859 directly.