AS861

AS861 is an active but small ASN belonging to GONET, the Government of Ontario's provincial IT network, and it currently announces a single small IPv4 block rather than sitting dormant. It has no independent ARIN RDAP record of its own — lookups resolve into the contiguous registry block AS857–AS885 (handle "AS857," name GONET-ASN-17, org GOVER-10) — so every registry-level fact below is a fact of that block, not of AS861 in isolation.

The block's top-level ARIN RDAP registration event dates to 1990-08-07, last changed 2021-02-23; the 1990-08-07 date is independently corroborated by bgp.tools' own "Registered August 7, 1990" listing for AS861, so it is not a decoy nested-object date. The registrant is the Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services branch, Toronto, ON, under ARIN org handle GOVER-10.

Two operator-self-submitted names describe the same entity without a single reconciling document: ARIN's org record reads "GONET," while the PeeringDB profile for the block handle AS857 self-identifies as "Ontario Public Service." Both describe the same provincial network; no dedicated GONET website was found beyond the general ontario.ca portal, and PeeringDB self-classifies it as Government with a Restrictive, private-only peering policy.

In BGP, AS861 announces one IPv4 prefix, 204.41.228.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6 space, with a single observed upstream/peer, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), per matching bgp.he.net and bgp.tools lookups. CAIDA ranks AS861 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 independently 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.

Operator

Government of Ontario — GONET (Government of Ontario Network), Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services branch; ARIN org handle GOVER-10, 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/861

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/861

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN autnum top-level registration event for the AS857–AS885 block containing AS861, corroborated independently by bgp.tools); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/861, bgp.tools/as/861

Org status

active — ARIN reports the AS857–AS885 block status "active"; PeeringDB reports RIR status "ok" for AS857 (profile last updated 2024-06-26) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/861, peeringdb.com/asn/857

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (abuse/routing/technical/noc, POC handle CSB8-ARIN, unvalidated since 2023-11-07); TechnologyContactforGlobalIPAddressing@ontario.ca (dns/administrative/routing/technical, POC handle OIA3-ARIN, validated); domain.registration@ontario.ca (technical, POC handle DOMAI415-ARIN, unvalidated since 2019-12-03)

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/861

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-09 — not on Spamhaus ASN-DROP, CleanTalk shows 0.00% spam rate, no NANOG or Reddit discussion located; one incident-history search did not complete (search budget exhausted), so this is a partial-coverage clean read, not an exhaustive one

Network & routing

Network type

Government — provincial government IT network, self-classified "Government" on the PeeringDB profile for block handle AS857 [Likely] — peeringdb.com/asn/857

Size

1 IPv4 prefix announced (204.41.228.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank = 67,700; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS861, bgp.tools/as/861, asrank.caida.org/asns/861

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 IX presence found in sources consulted; PeeringDB (block handle AS857) self-submits policy general "Restrictive" with "Private Only" session requirement [Confirmed for upstream; Likely for policy] — bgp.he.net/AS861, bgp.tools/as/861, peeringdb.com/asn/857, asrank.caida.org/asns/861, stat.ripe.net/861

RPKI

no ROA coverage — bgp.he.net reports 0 valid / 0 invalid RPKI origins for the announced 204.41.228.0/24 [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS861

Notable usage

internal provincial government network carrying Government of Ontario IT/telecommunications traffic for the Ontario Public Service; not a commercial ISP, no public hosting/CDN role found [Likely] — rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10, peeringdb.com/asn/857

Related ASNs

AS857 (ARIN registry handle for the AS857–AS885 block that AS861 falls inside) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/861

Analyst note

AS861 has no independent ARIN RDAP record; it is reachable only through the AS857–AS885 block record (handle AS857, org GOVER-10). Two operator-self-submitted org names ("GONET" per ARIN, "Ontario Public Service" per PeeringDB) describe the same Ontario provincial network and are reported side by side rather than resolved by guesswork. No dedicated GONET website was found beyond the general ontario.ca portal. CAIDA rank 67,700 and a singleton customer cone (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses), plus CAIDA asnDegree and RIPEstat RIS visibility, corroborate the single-upstream picture from sources independent of bgp.he.net/bgp.tools.