AS874

AS874 is a small, single-homed autonomous system operated internally by the Government of Ontario under the name GONET: it currently announces exactly one IPv4 /24 (204.41.241.0/24) through a single upstream, TELUS Communications Inc. (AS852), carries no IPv6, has no settlement-free peers, and serves no downstream customers — an active but minimal government stub network, not a commercial ISP or transit provider.

ARIN does not maintain a standalone RDAP object for AS874. A lookup instead resolves to a block-level record, handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17, spanning AS857 through AS885 and registered as one unit to the Government of Ontario's Infrastructure Technology Services org (ARIN handle GOVER-10). This is normal ARIN range delegation, not a data error, and the block's top-level registration event supplies AS874's allocated_date.

The org-level RDAP address still cites the older "Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services" name, while the most recently updated point of contact on the same autnum record (OIA3-ARIN, changed 2025-07-30) lists the current body as the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services, at 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto. This reads as naming drift within one organization, not two distinct entities.

The lone /24 is well propagated in IPv4 — visible to 328 of 329 RIS route-collector peers — despite carrying no RPKI ROA, so route-origin validation for it currently returns unknown rather than valid or invalid. CAIDA's AS rank (67,700) and degree data (0 customers, 0 peers, 1 provider) both corroborate the single-homed stub-AS profile.

No public operator website, PeeringDB record, or published peering policy could be located for AS874, and its specific operational role within the shared AS857–AS885 block is inferred rather than documented — plausibly internal segmentation across Ontario provincial ministries, but no independent source names which service AS874 itself carries.

Abuse listing

Not present in the Spamhaus ASN-DROP list as of a check on 2026-08-09.

Reputation-tool coverage

Spamhaus's interactive ASN lookup, Cisco Talos Reputation Center, and AbuseIPDB all returned HTTP 403/404 to unauthenticated fetch as of 2026-08-09, so those specific sources remain unconfirmed rather than verified clean.

NANOG mention

No direct match for the string "AS874" in a Mail-Archive.com full-text search of the nanog@nanog.org list as of 2026-08-09.

Spoofability signal

CAIDA Spoofer Project reports circulated on NANOG from March through July 2023 list "GONET-ASN-17" — the shared block AS874 sits inside — under source-address-validation test results; this is a BCP38 network-hygiene flag on the block, not a confirmed malicious-abuse listing, and cannot be pinned to AS874 specifically versus a sibling ASN in AS857–AS885.

RPKI exposure

The sole announced prefix, 204.41.241.0/24, carries no ROA, leaving route-origin validation unknown for that prefix.

Operator

Government of Ontario (GONET); ARIN org GOVER-10, most recently the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN top-level registration event for the block AS857–AS885 containing AS874; ARIN has no separate per-ASN record); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP status: active) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Contacts

abuse contact CSOC@ontario.ca (authoritative RIR: ARIN); org address 222 Jarvis Street, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada (per POC OIA3-ARIN) [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS874, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no Spamhaus ASN-DROP listing and no direct NANOG mention as of 2026-08-09; the shared block name "GONET-ASN-17" appears in CAIDA Spoofer Project source-address-validation reports on NANOG (Mar–Jul 2023), not attributable to AS874 specifically over a sibling ASN in the same block

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise stub network, single-homed, not a commercial ISP or transit provider [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS874, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Size

1 IPv4 prefix announced (204.41.241.0/24, ~256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS874

Routing/peering

sole upstream AS852 TELUS Communications Inc.; CAIDA degree customer 0 / peer 0 / provider 1; IPv4 seen by 328/329 RIS peers, IPv6 0/322; no PeeringDB record found (peeringdb.com/asn/874 returns HTTP 404), so peering policy is Unknown [Confirmed for routing data; Unknown for peering policy] — https://bgp.he.net/AS874, https://bgp.tools/as/874, https://stat.ripe.net/AS874, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=874

RPKI

no ROA found for the sole announced prefix 204.41.241.0/24; validator status unknown [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/AS874

Notable usage

likely one ASN within a bulk AS857–AS885 range registered together to GONET for internal segmentation across Ontario ministries; AS874's own specific role is undocumented [Likely] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Related ASNs

AS857–AS885 (same block/org, name GONET-ASN-17) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/874

Analyst note

Encountered as a small Ontario provincial-government stub ASN sharing a bulk ARIN block (AS857–AS885) with sibling ASNs; RDAP resolves any lookup to the block-level record rather than a standalone AS874 object — normal ARIN range delegation, not an error, and the block's registration event is what backs allocated_date here.