AS868

AS868 is an active but minimally-routed ASN registered to the Government of Ontario, presently announcing a single IPv4 prefix and no IPv6 space through one upstream carrier — a small government stub network, not a transit or content operator.

The registrant is GONET-ASN-17, held by Ontario's Ministry of Government Services (Infrastructure Technology Services). ARIN's RDAP record represents AS868 through the block handle AS857, spanning AS857–AS885, all assigned to the same ministry; the top-level autnum registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23.

Routing is thin: bgp.he.net and bgp.tools both show one announced prefix, 204.41.235.0/24 (256 addresses), zero IPv6, and a single BGP session to AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) acting as sole upstream. CAIDA AS Rank places it at 67,700 with an empty customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses) and zero settlement-free peers.

No PeeringDB record, dedicated operator website, or public peering policy exists for AS868; the only reachable official presence is the general ontario.ca government portal. Sibling ASN AS808 sits in a different GONET block (GONET-ASN-1) with its own hosted-domain footprint and must not be conflated with AS868.

RPKI

No ROA covers AS868's announced space — RIPEstat's rpki-validation for 204.41.235.0/24 returns status "unknown" with no validating ROAs, corroborated by bgp.he.net showing zero valid/invalid RPKI origins.

Abuse signal

No notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not in NANOG archives or third-party threat writeups; CleanTalk's AS868 tracker showed 0 detected spam IPs and a 0.00% spam rate as of the same check.

Contact hygiene

ARIN RDAP lists a "Cyber Security Branch" abuse point of contact flagged unvalidated since 2023-11-07, with no confirmed response to ARIN's validation attempts.

Operator

Government of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services — ASN block labeled GONET-ASN-17 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/868

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/868

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event for the AS857–AS885 block); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/868, https://bgp.tools/as/868

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP, part of the GONET-ASN-17 block (AS857–AS885) held by Ontario's Ministry of Government Services [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/868

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (POC handle CSB8-ARIN, "Cyber Security Branch," roles technical/noc/abuse/routing, unvalidated since 2023-11-07), independently corroborated by RIPEstat's abuse-contact-finder for resource 868; no NOC-specific POC exists separate from this abuse/NOC contact

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/868

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not in NANOG archives; CleanTalk shows 0 detected spam IPs, 0.00% spam rate

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise internal IT network (not a commercial ISP) [Likely] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/868

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses announced (204.41.235.0/24); 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS868, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/868

Routing/peering

single upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); 0 settlement-free peers; CAIDA asnDegree provider:1, customer:0, peer:0; no PeeringDB record found [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS868, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/868

RPKI

no ROA on file for 204.41.235.0/24; RIPEstat rpki-validation status "unknown" [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS868

Notable usage

no hosted domains, websites, or services specific to AS868 identified; not to be confused with sibling ASN AS808 (different GONET block, GONET-ASN-1) whose ontario.ca-family domain usage belongs to that separate ASN [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS868

Related ASNs

AS857 (block handle covering AS857–AS885, same registrant); AS852 (TELUS, sole upstream); AS808 (separate GONET block, GONET-ASN-1 — do not conflate) [Confirmed for AS857/AS852; Likely for AS808 distinction]

Analyst note

Small, single-homed Ontario government stub ASN with no discoverable operator-specific web presence; do not merge its usage/abuse data with sibling ASN AS808 or with unrelated PeeringDB entries for similarly-named networks (AS270049 "Gonet", AS328051 "Go Communications Network") — these are different organizations.