AS866

AS866 is an active, single-homed autonomous system registered to GONET, the Government of Ontario's internal provincial network, and it currently announces exactly one IPv4 prefix — 204.41.233.0/24 — through a single upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.). It carries no IPv6 announcement, and no RPKI ROA covers the announced prefix.

ARIN RDAP resolves AS866 to a shared block record, handle AS857, named "GONET-ASN-17" and covering ASNs 857–885, registered to GONET / Government of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, in Toronto. That block's top-level registration event reads 1990-08-07, independently corroborated by bgp.tools, which states the AS was "Registered on 7 Aug 1990." The record was last updated 2021-02-23.

No operator-published network page, peering policy, or PeeringDB entry exists for AS866; ontario.ca carries no IT/network-infrastructure section, and a PeeringDB API query for ASN 866 returned no result. This is consistent with an internal government WAN rather than a public-facing ISP or transit provider, and it means peering posture and traffic volume cannot be independently assessed beyond the single TELUS relationship visible in BGP data. CAIDA ranks AS866 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

GONET (Government of Ontario Network) — registrant organization on ARIN RDAP, associated with the Government of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services (handle GOVER-10) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/866

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/866 (registrant address in Toronto, ON)

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event for block AS857–885, "GONET-ASN-17", which AS866 falls under; corroborated by bgp.tools "Registered on 7 Aug 1990"); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/857, bgp.tools/as/866

Org status

active, per ARIN RDAP [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/866

Contacts

TechnologyContactforGlobalIPAddressing@ontario.ca; registrant address Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada; two ARIN POCs (CSB8-ARIN, DOMAI415-ARIN) are flagged unvalidated by ARIN since 2023-11-07 and 2019-12-03 respectively

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/866

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

not present in Spamhaus ASN-DROP as of a 2026-08-09 live check; bgp.he.net separately displays an "announces bogons" flag that could not be corroborated by a second source; a NANOG archive search for AS866/GONET was inconclusive because several search engines were blocked by anti-bot measures [Confirmed for Spamhaus absence; Unknown for the bogon flag and NANOG coverage] — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json, bgp.he.net/AS866

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise network — internal WAN of the Government of Ontario provincial government, not a commercial ISP or transit provider (inferred from the registrant org and the absence of any ISP-facing content on ontario.ca) [Likely] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/866, www.ontario.ca

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.233.0/24, ~256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank = 67,700; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS866, bgp.tools/as/866, asrank.caida.org/asns/866

Routing/peering

single upstream/peer relationship, 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 IPv6 upstream; no PeeringDB network record for AS866; no published peering policy found on ontario.ca [Confirmed for the AS852 relationship and PeeringDB absence] — bgp.he.net/AS866, bgp.tools/as/866, www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=866, asrank.caida.org/asns/866, stat.ripe.net/866

RPKI

not covered — no valid ROA found for 204.41.233.0/24; bgp.tools separately notes the prefix "matches unauthenticated IRR source" [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS866, bgp.tools/as/866

Notable usage

no operator-published usage statement was found; third-party BGP data shows AS866 originating a single /24 via TELUS as sole upstream, consistent with an internal provincial-government network rather than a public-facing ISP [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS866

Related ASNs

AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc., sole observed upstream/peer); AS866 sits inside ARIN's shared AS857–885 "GONET-ASN-17" block registered to the same GONET/Government of Ontario org [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/857, bgp.he.net/AS866

Analyst note

AS866 is a narrowly-scoped, single-prefix government network (GONET / Government of Ontario) reaching the DFZ solely through TELUS (AS852), with no RPKI coverage and no public peering presence; unlike some legacy ASNs of similar registry vintage, it is actively announcing routes as of the routing sources consulted, not dormant. CAIDA rank 67,700 and a singleton customer cone (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses), plus asnDegree and RIPEstat RIS visibility, corroborate the single-upstream picture from sources independent of bgp.he.net/bgp.tools

[Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS866, bgp.tools/as/866, asrank.caida.org/asns/866