AS869

AS869 is a small, single-homed Government of Ontario network (GONET-ASN-17) that currently announces exactly one IPv4 prefix and no IPv6 space, with its only visible routing relationship being a single upstream/transit connection.

ARIN RDAP shows AS869 sitting inside a block record named GONET-ASN-17, spanning AS857–AS885, registered to the Government of Ontario's Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services. That block's top-level autnum registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with the record last changed 2021-02-23. AS869 has no ASN-specific PeeringDB record of its own; operator-profile fields below (website, network type, peering policy) are carried over from the sibling AS857 org page as a group-level description, not an AS869-specific filing.

On the routing side, RIPEstat and CAIDA agree AS869 originates only 204.41.236.0/24 (256 addresses), no IPv6 prefixes, and has a CAIDA AS rank of 67,700 with topology degree of exactly one provider, zero peers, and zero customers — a customer cone that is a singleton (itself). RIPEstat's routing-status shows one observed neighbour, consistent with a single upstream; a search-snippet reference (not a direct page fetch) suggests that upstream is AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), flagged Likely rather than Confirmed. No ROA exists for the announced prefix, so its RPKI validation status is unknown.

The network geolocates to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, matching the ARIN registrant address, and lists CSOC@ontario.ca (Cyber Security Branch) as its abuse contact.

Exposure

Single stub network with one announced /24 and one upstream; no peers, no customer cone, and RPKI status unknown (no ROA) for its only prefix, so route-origin validation cannot currently protect it — RIPEstat RPKI tab for AS869.

Blocklist status

Not listed on the Spamhaus ASN-DROP list as of the 2026-07-27 published edition — spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.txt.

Incident history

No NANOG mailing-list thread referencing AS869 or GONET (hijack, leak, outage, or abuse) found in the seclists.org archive as of an August 2026 search.

Threat intel

No dedicated threat-intelligence report or abuse advisory naming AS869 or GONET found as of an August 2026 search; absence of hits reflects a low-visibility government network rather than a confirmed clean bill of health beyond the sources checked.

Operator

Government of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services / Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services (GONET); ARIN org handle GOVER-10 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/869

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/869

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level autnum registration event for block GONET-ASN-17, AS857–AS885, which contains AS869); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/869

Org status

Active [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/869

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (Cyber Security Branch, Ministry of Government Services); registrant address 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/869, https://stat.ripe.net/AS869

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not on Spamhaus ASN-DROP (2026-07-27 edition), no NANOG archive incident threads, no general threat-intel report naming AS869/GONET

Network & routing

Network type

Government (self-reported, via sibling AS857 PeeringDB org profile — AS869 has no dedicated PeeringDB record) [Likely] — https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.236.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses; CAIDA AS rank 67,700 [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS869#tabId=routing, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/869

Routing/peering

topology degree 1 (0 customers, 0 peers, 1 provider); RIPEstat shows 1 observed neighbour; likely upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) per a bgp.tools/bgp.he.net search snippet, not a full page fetch [Likely] — https://bgp.tools/as/869, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/869

RPKI

no ROA found; validation status "unknown" for 204.41.236.0/24 (routinator validator, checked_count 1) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS869#tabId=rpki

Notable usage

Third-party BGP observation only (no operator-published usage page found): single-prefix provincial-government network, first observed originating its current prefix in RIPEstat routing history from 2022-02-05 [Likely] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS869#tabId=routing

Related ASNs

AS857 (start of the same GONET-ASN-17 block, AS857–AS885, source of PeeringDB org profile fields used above); AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc., likely sole upstream) [Confirmed for AS857 block membership; Likely for AS852 relationship] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/869, https://bgp.tools/as/869

Analyst note

Small, single-homed Ontario provincial-government stub ASN with one announced prefix and no ROA; AS869 itself carries no ASN-specific PeeringDB profile, so operator-facing fields (website, network type, peering policy) are drawn from the sibling AS857 org record in the same GONET-ASN-17 block and flagged accordingly.