AS870

AS870 is an active but lightly used autonomous system registered to GONET, the internal network of the Government of Ontario, currently originating a single IPv4 prefix through one upstream carrier and no IPv6 space at all.

The ARIN RDAP record covering AS870 is a block-level object, handle AS857, spanning AS857–AS885 and named "GONET." AS870 has no separate autnum entry; its registration facts are the block's. That block's top-level registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23. The registrant is GOVER-10, tied to the Ministry of Government Services / Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

In live routing, AS870 announces exactly one prefix, 204.41.237.0/24 (256 addresses), through a single observed upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), with zero settlement-free peers. CAIDA ranks AS870 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, consistent with a small single-homed government stub AS rather than a transit or hosting network. PeeringDB has no net record for AS870 itself (a direct lookup 404s); the block's reference ASN, AS857 ("Ontario Public Service (OPS)"), shows a Restrictive policy with a Private Only contract requirement, which is suggestive of the parent organization's posture but not a confirmed AS870-level policy.

No notable public abuse signal was found for AS870 as of an August 2026 search of Spamhaus, CleanTalk, and NANOG mailing-list archives. AbuseIPDB's AS870 page could not be retrieved (HTTP 403) and is left Unknown rather than treated as a negative finding. Hurricane Electric's BGP Toolkit page for AS870 carries an automated "announces bogons" routing-hygiene notice, which is HE's own cleanliness flag and not a corroborated third-party abuse or hijack report.

Operator

Government of Ontario — GONET, registrant GOVER-10, under the Ministry of Government Services / Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870

Country / RIR

CA (Toronto, Ontario), ARIN [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870, bgp.he.net/AS870

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level "registration" event on the AS857–AS885 block object covering AS870); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP block status [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870

Contacts

registrant GOVER-10 (GONET); technical/abuse CSB8-ARIN (Cyber Security Branch — POC unvalidated since 2023-11-07); routing/admin/DNS OIA3-ARIN (Ontario IP Administration — validated); technical DOMAI415-ARIN (Domain Registration, Treasury Board Secretariat — POC unvalidated since 2019-12-03); 222 Jarvis St., Toronto, ON

[Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search of Spamhaus, CleanTalk, and NANOG archives; AbuseIPDB page returned HTTP 403 (Unknown); bgp.he.net shows an automated "announces bogons" hygiene flag, uncorroborated elsewhere

Network & routing

Network type

government — internal provincial network (GONET = Government of Ontario Network) [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses (204.41.237.0/24); 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank = 67,700; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS870, bgp.tools/as/870, api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/870

Routing/peering

sole observed upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), corroborated by CAIDA asnDegree (total=1, provider=1, peer=0, customer=0); 0 settlement-free peers; no PeeringDB net record exists for AS870 itself (404); block reference ASN AS857 ("Ontario Public Service (OPS)") lists policy Restrictive / Private Only [Confirmed for AS852 relationship; Likely for AS870-level peering posture, inferred from AS857] — bgp.he.net/AS870, api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/870, peeringdb.com/asn/857

RPKI

Likely no ROA coverage — bgp.he.net reports zero RPKI-valid and zero RPKI-invalid originations for AS870's announced prefix [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS870

Notable usage

single small IPv4 block (204.41.237.0/24) within the much larger ARIN-registered GONET-ASN-17 range AS857–AS885, used for Ontario provincial government IT infrastructure [Confirmed] — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/870, bgp.he.net/AS870

Related ASNs

AS857 (GONET-ASN-17 block reference ASN, PeeringDB org "Ontario Public Service (OPS)"); AS852 (TELUS, sole upstream) [Confirmed] — peeringdb.com/asn/857, bgp.he.net/AS870

Analyst note

One angle (A5-community) reported AS870 as tied to "GoNetSpeed," a US consumer ISP, in Chatsworth, California, sourced from a geolocation aggregator and a personnel-search site (rocketreach.co). This directly conflicts with three angles (A2, A3, A4) whose first-party sourcing (ARIN RDAP, bgp.he.net, PeeringDB) consistently and independently confirms AS870 as the Government of Ontario's GONET, headquartered in Toronto. Treated as a likely wrong-record mix-up with an unrelated "GoNet" company and excluded from Fields/JSON.