AS865

AS865 is an active autonomous system registered to the Government of Ontario, operating as GONET (Government of Ontario Network) under ARIN handle GONET-ASN-17. It currently originates exactly one IPv4 prefix, 204.41.232.0/24 (256 addresses), and no IPv6 space — a small, single-purpose government enterprise network rather than a commercial ISP or content network.

The ASN sits inside a block registration spanning AS857–AS885, with a top-level ARIN RDAP registration event dated 1990-08-07 and a last-changed date of 2021-02-23. ARIN exposes this as one block-level autnum record (name GONET-ASN-17) rather than a per-ASN entry, so the 1990-08-07 date is the correct first-party allocation fact for AS865 even though it is shared across the whole numbered range.

Routing visibility is thin but consistent across sources: RIPEstat shows the /24 seen by 328 of 329 IPv4 RIS peers, and CAIDA's AS-relationship graph records a single provider relationship with zero peers and zero customers (asnDegree total 1). bgp.he.net independently names AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) as the sole observed BGP neighbor, consistent with a single-upstream stub network. CAIDA ranks the ASN 67,700 globally, with a customer cone limited to AS865 itself.

PeeringDB carries a "Government" info_type and a Restrictive general peering policy for the covering AS857 network object, but there is no AS865-specific PeeringDB record (a direct query 404s), so that policy is attributed to the operator rather than confirmed for AS865 alone. No dedicated GONET or Infrastructure Technology Services operator webpage was found; several plausible ontario.ca URLs all returned 404 during this search.

RPKI coverage is absent: Routinator found no ROA covering 204.41.232.0/24, so origin validation status reads unknown rather than valid or invalid.

Abuse signal

No notable public abuse signal found for AS865 as of an August 2026 search — zero mentions in the NANOG mail-archive and absent from the reachable portion of Spamhaus's ASN-DROP list.

Reputation feeds

AbuseIPDB and Cisco Talos Intelligence blocked automated lookups (HTTP 403) as of this check, so those two feeds remain unverified rather than confirmed clean.

Bogon flag

bgp.he.net displays an unexplained "announces bogons" indicator for AS865 with no specific bogon prefix listed and no corroboration from a second source — treat as unconfirmed, not dismissed.

RPKI exposure

The sole announced prefix, 204.41.232.0/24, has no covering ROA, leaving route-origin validation unenforced for this network.

Malware/CVE association

No malware, botnet, or CVE association tied to AS865 or GONET was found in sources reachable as of 2026-08-09.

Operator

Government of Ontario — Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services, operating as GONET (Government of Ontario Network); ARIN registrant handle GOVER-10 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/865

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/865, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/865

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event for the AS857–AS885 block, handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/865, https://ipinfo.io/AS865

Org status

active, per ARIN RDAP; block registration AS857–AS885, registrant Government of Ontario (GOVER-10) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/865

Contacts

abuse contact CSOC@ontario.ca (RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder, authoritative_rir=arin); no dedicated GONET/ITS operator webpage found (ontario.ca/page/gonet and related URLs 404) [Confirmed for abuse contact; Unknown for standalone operator site] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS865

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-09 — zero NANOG mail-archive hits, absent from reachable Spamhaus ASN-DROP; AbuseIPDB and Talos blocked (403, unchecked); bgp.he.net shows an uncorroborated "announces bogons" flag [Likely] — https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=nanog%40nanog.org&q=AS865, https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.txt, https://bgp.he.net/AS865

Network & routing

Network type

government/internal enterprise network (PeeringDB info_type "Government"); not a commercial ISP or content network [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses (204.41.232.0/24); 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS865, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/865

Routing/peering

single upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), per bgp.he.net; CAIDA asnDegree provider=1, peer=0, customer=0; seen by 328/329 IPv4 RIS peers, 0/322 IPv6 [Confirmed for CAIDA/RIPEstat counts; Likely for AS852 identity, single-source] — https://bgp.he.net/AS865, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/865, https://stat.ripe.net/AS865

RPKI

unknown — no ROA covers the announced prefix 204.41.232.0/24 (Routinator validating_roas: []) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS865

Notable usage

sole announced prefix 204.41.232.0/24 (256 addresses); no IPv6; CAIDA AS rank 67,700 [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS865, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/865

Related ASNs

AS857–AS885 (shared GONET-ASN-17 block registration covering AS865) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/865

Analyst note

AS865 is a small, single-prefix government stub network (Government of Ontario / GONET) riding a single TELUS upstream, not a multi-tenant or commercial network. It is not one of the shared IEEE-style bases with many unrelated sub-registrants, so no multi-tenant attribution caveat applies here.