AS877

AS877 is an active but routing-quiet Canadian government autonomous system: it has no individual ARIN registration of its own, falling instead inside a contiguous bulk block (AS857–AS885) issued to the Government of Ontario's GONET network, and it currently originates exactly one IPv4 prefix.

The AS857–AS885 range is registered as a single ARIN autnum object, handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17, held by the Ontario Ministry of Government Services' Infrastructure Technology Services group (registrant org GOVER-10). The object's top-level registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23 — both first-party ARIN RDAP facts, since AS877 has no separate registration record.

Routing data is thin and consistent across sources: AS877 announces only 204.41.244.0/24 (256 addresses), zero IPv6, and sits at CAIDA AS rank 67,700 with a singleton customer cone (itself, one prefix, 256 addresses). CAIDA degree counts show one provider and zero peers or customers, matching bgp.he.net's classification of AS877 as a stub AS with AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) as its sole visible upstream — a BGP transit relationship, not ownership.

RPKI coverage is absent: RIPEstat's routinator validator returns "unknown" for the announced prefix because no ROA exists, corroborated by bgp.he.net showing no RPKI records for the ASN. No PeeringDB profile exists for AS877, and no operator-published peering policy was located.

Operator

Government of Ontario, GONET network (ARIN org GOVER-10; bulk registration handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17, covering AS857–AS885); Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/877

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/877, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/877

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level registration event on the AS857–AS885 autnum block covering AS877; AS877 has no separate registration record); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/877

Org status

active, per the ARIN RDAP status field on the AS857–AS885 registration [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/877

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (abuse, RIPEstat-resolved); TechnologyContactforGlobalIPAddressing@ontario.ca (Ontario IP Administration, OIA3-ARIN, validated); domain.registration@ontario.ca (DOMAI415-ARIN, unvalidated since 2019); HQ 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/877, https://stat.ripe.net/data/abuse-contact-finder/data.json?resource=AS877

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of a 2026-08-09 search — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP's live feed (426 records checked) or NANOG mailing-list archives; AbuseIPDB could not be queried directly (HTTP 403), so that specific check is Unknown rather than asserted clean [Confirmed for Spamhaus/NANOG; Unknown for AbuseIPDB] — https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/asndrop.json, https://seclists.org/nanog/

Network & routing

Network type

enterprise/government stub network (non-transit); classified as a Stub AS by bgp.he.net [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS877

Size

1 IPv4 prefix, 204.41.244.0/24 (256 addresses); 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/announced-prefixes/data.json?resource=AS877, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/877

Routing/peering

seen by 327/327 RIS peers (100%) as of 2026-08-09; CAIDA degree total=1 (provider=1, peer=0, customer=0); sole observed upstream AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) per bgp.he.net [Confirmed for RIS/CAIDA counts; Likely for AS852 identity]. No PeeringDB profile exists (404) and no published peering policy was found [Confirmed absence] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/routing-status/data.json?resource=AS877, https://bgp.he.net/AS877, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/877

RPKI

no ROA covers 204.41.244.0/24; RIPEstat routinator validation returns "unknown"; bgp.he.net independently shows no RPKI records for the ASN [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS877&prefix=204.41.244.0/24, https://bgp.he.net/AS877

Notable usage

government network for the Province of Ontario; the sole announced block, 204.41.244.0/24, geolocates to Toronto, Ontario [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS877, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/877

Related ASNs

AS857–AS885 (contiguous ARIN block registered as one object to the same GONET/Government of Ontario org); AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc., observed upstream transit provider — a peering relationship, not ownership) [Confirmed for the block; Likely for AS852 as upstream] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/877, https://bgp.he.net/AS877

Analyst note

AS877 has no individual ARIN registration — it falls inside a contiguous bulk block (AS857–AS885) issued to the Government of Ontario's GONET network. Live routing shows a single stub prefix with AS852 (TELUS) as upstream transit only; that is a BGP relationship, not ownership, and AS877 is not part of TELUS.