AS871

AS871 is a small, actively-routed government autonomous system registered to the Government of Ontario's GONET network; it currently originates exactly one IPv4 prefix, 204.41.238.0/24, through a single upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), and announces no IPv6 space.

ARIN RDAP has no standalone record for AS871 — the ASN sits inside the block AS857–885, whose top-level record carries handle AS857 and name GONET-ASN-17. That block-level record is the authoritative source for AS871's registration facts: a registration event dated 1990-08-07 and a last-changed event dated 2021-02-23. The registrant is Ontario's Infrastructure Technology Services (Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement), reachable at 222 Jarvis St, Toronto.

Routing is minimal but genuine: CAIDA's customer cone for AS871 is a singleton (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses), its AS Rank sits at roughly 67,700, and the only visible BGP adjacency in public looking-glass data is the AS852 upstream link — no settlement-free peers or downstream customers are observed. PeeringDB's operator-maintained record for the covering net (AS857/GONET) states a Restrictive, Private-Only peering policy with no public IX or facility presence and no published policy URL.

No RPKI ROA covers the announced prefix as of an August 2026 check; bgp.tools shows only an unauthenticated IRR route-object match, so RPKI adoption is effectively absent.

Operator

Government of Ontario (Province of Ontario), Infrastructure Technology Services, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, operating the network as "GONET" (PeeringDB long name "Ontario Public Service"); registrant org handle GOVER-10, 222 Jarvis St, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871

Allocated

ARIN RDAP has no standalone AS871 record; AS871 falls inside block AS857–885 (top-level handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17), whose top-level registration event is 1990-08-07; last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871

Org status

active; ARIN RDAP status for the covering AS857–885 block is "active"; PeeringDB rir_status for AS857/GONET is "ok", last verified 2024-06-26 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857

Contacts

abuse contact CSB8-ARIN / CSOC@ontario.ca (ARIN-flagged unvalidated, no response since November 2023); registrant address 222 Jarvis St, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

not listed in Spamhaus ASN-DROP as of the 2026-07-27 dataset, checked 2026-08-09 [Confirmed]; Hurricane Electric's BGP Toolkit displays a live, undated "announces bogons" badge that was not independently corroborated in HE's separate aggregate bogon-report page pulled the same day [Likely]; ARIN's on-file abuse contact (CSB8-ARIN, CSOC@ontario.ca) is flagged by ARIN itself as unvalidated since November 2023 [Confirmed] — https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json, https://bgp.he.net/AS871, https://bgp.he.net/report/bogons, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871

Network & routing

Network type

Government — provincial government WAN (self-reported PeeringDB category "Government"), not a commercial ISP [Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.238.0/24, ~256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA customer cone = singleton (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses); CAIDA AS rank ~67,700 as of an August 2026 query [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS871, https://bgp.tools/as/871, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/871

Routing/peering

sole observed adjacency is upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc., Canada); no other peers or customers visible in public route-collector data. PeeringDB (operator-maintained record for AS857/GONET) states policy_general "Restrictive", policy_contracts "Private Only", no policy URL, 0 IX and 0 facility presence

[Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS871, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857

RPKI

no RPKI-valid or RPKI-invalid origins recorded for the announced prefix as of an August 2026 check; bgp.tools shows only an unauthenticated IRR route-object match, i.e. RPKI coverage is absent [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS871, https://bgp.tools/as/871

Notable usage

internal wide-area network connecting Ontario provincial-government ministries and IT infrastructure; a single /24 routed through one Canadian transit provider is consistent with a small, non-transit government access network rather than a public ISP

[Likely] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857, https://bgp.he.net/AS871

Related ASNs

AS871 falls within ARIN block AS857–885, registered to the same GONET org; a third-party database also lists AS808 and AS835 as Gonet-associated [Confirmed for AS857-885 block; Likely for AS808/AS835 per third-party DB] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/871, https://networksdb.io/ip-addresses-of/gonet

Analyst note

AS871 has no standalone RIR record — its registration facts come from the covering AS857–885 block record (handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17). Live routing is minimal but active: one /24, one upstream (AS852/TELUS), no downstream customers. No confirmed abuse listing was found; the only security-relevant signal is Hurricane Electric's own dynamic "announces bogons" badge, which should be read as a dated, partially-corroborated operational flag rather than a threat-intel confirmation.