AS867

AS867 is an active ASN registered to GONET (Government of Ontario Network), the internal data/voice/video network of the Ontario Public Service, and it currently announces exactly one IPv4 prefix — 204.41.234.0/24 (256 addresses) — with no IPv6 space, routed through a single upstream.

The ASN sits inside a contiguous ARIN block, AS857–AS885, handle "GONET-ASN-17," with a top-level RDAP registration date of 1990-08-07 and a last-changed event of 2021-02-23. The registrant organization is the Government of Ontario's Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (Infrastructure Technology Services / Telecommunications Services Branch), based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Live routing data shows AS867's single prefix first appeared in global BGP on 2022-02-05, roughly three decades after the block's registry allocation — consistent with a long-held but only recently activated government address block rather than a contradiction of the registration date. Its sole observed BGP relationship is upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); CAIDA's AS-degree data agrees (provider=1, peer=0, customer=0), giving a customer cone of just the ASN itself. CAIDA's global AS rank is 67,700, and its raw dataset marks AS867 cliqueMember=true, which conflicts with a single-provider, zero-peer degree profile and is reported here as an unresolved dataset anomaly rather than a Tier-1 claim.

No PeeringDB record exists specifically for AS867; the only related PeeringDB entry, for the block's primary ASN AS857, lists a Restrictive policy with Private Only peering and no public IXP presence, which is carried forward as likely context rather than an AS867-specific fact.

Operator

GONET (Government of Ontario Network), operated by the Government of Ontario's Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery, Infrastructure Technology Services / Telecommunications Services Branch [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/867, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/867

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level registration event on the AS857–AS885 "GONET-ASN-17" block); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/867

Org status

active; AS867 sits within the active AS857–AS885 "GONET-ASN-17" block; Government of Ontario continues publishing GO-ITS network standards referencing GONET into 2025 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/867, https://www.ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Contacts

abuse contact CSOC@ontario.ca; registrant address 222 Jarvis St, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=867, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/867

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not in Spamhaus, general blocklist aggregators, or NANOG archives; Spamhaus's own endpoints returned 403/404 rather than an explicit "not listed" page

Network & routing

Network type

Government / internal enterprise network for the Ontario Public Service (not a commercial ISP or transit provider) [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857, https://www.ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Size

1 IPv4 prefix announced (204.41.234.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/announced-prefixes/data.json?resource=867, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/867

Routing/peering

sole upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); CAIDA degree total=1 (provider=1, peer=0, customer=0); no settlement-free peers observed [Confirmed]. Parent-org PeeringDB record (AS857) lists Restrictive / Private Only policy, no public IXP presence

[Likely, no AS867-specific record exists] — https://bgp.he.net/AS867, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/867, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857

RPKI

no ROA published for 204.41.234.0/24; validation status "unknown" as of a 2026-08-09 RIPEstat check (routinator) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=867&prefix=204.41.234.0/24

Notable usage

internal network carrying data/voice/video for the Ontario Public Service across ministries and agencies, per Government of Ontario GO-ITS network standards; not a public-facing ISP [Likely] — https://www.ontario.ca/page/go-its-571tes-network-quality-service-standard

Related ASNs

AS852 (TELUS Communications, sole upstream); AS857 (parent org ASN / PeeringDB record for the shared GONET-ASN-17 block) [Confirmed]; AS964 is a separately-registered GONET-affiliated ASN reported in NANOG archives to have had spoofing issues in early 2023 — distinct from AS867, mentioned here only as adjacent context

[Likely] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/867, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857, https://seclists.org/nanog/2023/Aug/71

Analyst note

AS867 is one member of a shared ARIN block (AS857–AS885) registered to the Government of Ontario's internal network; most operator-level detail (peering policy, network type) had to be sourced from the shared parent-ASN PeeringDB record (AS857) and GO-ITS documentation, since no PeeringDB or ontario.ca page names AS867 individually. This is a normal RIR block-registration pattern, not an ownership gap.