AS862

AS862 is a stub autonomous system registered to the Government of Ontario, operated under the internal designation GONET, that currently originates one IPv4 prefix (204.41.229.0/24) and zero IPv6 space. Its only observed BGP relationship is a single upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), with no public peers or downstream customers.

ARIN RDAP records the top-level registration event for the AS857–AS885 block containing AS862 as 1990-08-07, with a last-changed date of 2021-02-23. The ARIN org record names the holder as the Government of Ontario, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services (org handle GOVER-10), block name GONET-ASN-17.

CAIDA ranks AS862 at 67,700 with a customer cone limited to itself (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses), consistent with a single-homed government stub network geolocated to Toronto, Ontario. RIPEstat shows no RPKI ROA covering 204.41.229.0/24 (validation status unknown), and RIS visibility is 328 of 329 IPv4 peers with zero IPv6 announcement.

No dedicated public GONET operator website or PeeringDB network record was found as of 2026-08-09; the technical contact resolves to the general ontario.ca domain rather than a GONET-specific page. RDAP status is active, though two of three ARIN point-of-contact entities are flagged Unvalidated.

Operator

Government of Ontario — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services (network operated as "GONET"; ARIN org GOVER-10, block name GONET-ASN-17) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/862

Country / RIR

CA (Toronto, ON), ARIN [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=862 (authoritative_rir: arin); https://asrank.caida.org/asns/862 (geolocation)

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level registration event for block AS857–AS885 containing AS862); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/862 (autnum top-level events)

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP autnum status: active); governed by the Government of Ontario (org GOVER-10); two of three ARIN point-of-contact entities are flagged Unvalidated [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/862

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (Ontario Cyber Security Branch, ARIN POC CSB8-ARIN); TechnologyContactforGlobalIPAddressing@ontario.ca (ARIN entity OIA3-ARIN, Validated) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=862, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/862

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

not listed on Spamhaus ASN-DROP as of 2026-08-09; Shodan and NANOG mailing-list archive searches returned no hits; AbuseIPDB and Cisco Talos reputation lookups returned HTTP 403 and are recorded Unknown, not clean

Network & routing

Network type

government intranet/WAN (provincial government network); single-homed stub AS [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS862, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/862

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.229.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/862, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/862 (2026-08)

Routing/peering

NOT peered — single upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), 0 settlement-free peers, 0 customers (CAIDA asnDegree total 1); no PeeringDB network record exists for AS862 (404 as of 2026-08-09) [Confirmed] — https://asrank.caida.org/asns/862, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/862

RPKI

not covered — no ROA found for 204.41.229.0/24; RIPEstat rpki-validation returns status "unknown" (validating_roas: []) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/862

Notable usage

originates a single /24 for internal Government of Ontario use, transiting via TELUS Communications (AS852); no other notable public usage identified [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS862, https://whois.ipip.net/AS862

Related ASNs

AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), AS862's sole observed upstream; no other Government of Ontario ASNs confirmed in this pass [Confirmed for the AS852 relationship] — https://bgp.he.net/AS862, https://bgp.tools/as/862

Analyst note

AS862 is a small, single-homed Government of Ontario stub network with no public peering footprint and no dedicated operator webpage as of 2026-08-09. A third-party database (ip2location.com) lists a conflicting domain "gonet.us" for this ASN; this reads as a database artifact unrelated to the ARIN-confirmed Ontario government entity and was not adopted here.