AS878

AS878 is a lightly-routed government ASN registered to the Government of Ontario (operating name GONET), announcing a single IPv4 /24 — 204.41.245.0/24, roughly 256 addresses — through one upstream, TELUS Communications Inc. (AS852), with no IPv6 announced and no other peers observed as of an August 2026 check.

AS878 has no individually-registered ARIN RDAP object. It falls inside a single block registration spanning AS857–AS885, held by org record GOVER-10 ("GONET"), tied to Ontario's Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services (formerly named Ministry of Government Services on an older, unvalidated contact). The block's RDAP top-level registration event date is 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23; the RDAP object's "handle" field literally reads "AS857" — this is not an anomaly: ARIN registers AS857–AS885 as a single flat autnum object handled AS857, so querying AS878 legitimately returns that block record, and only the links[].value fields point at autnum/878.

Routing is minimal: bgp.he.net shows one BGP peer total (AS852, also the sole upstream), an average AS-path length of roughly 4.6 hops across ~717 observed paths, and zero RPKI-valid or -invalid origin counters, meaning the prefix has no ROA coverage either way. CAIDA places AS878 at rank 67,700 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses).

PeeringDB lists the AS857 block's network record (name "Ontario Public Service (OPS)") with a Restrictive/private-only peering policy and no IX presence; no dedicated public "about GONET" or peering page was found on ontario.ca despite targeted searching, so operator-published policy detail beyond the PeeringDB self-listing is Unknown rather than assumed absent.

One search angle returned Czech Republic contact details for a company also named "GONET" (gonet.cz, a Prague ISP). That is treated as name-collision noise, not corroboration: ARIN RDAP and bgp.he.net independently agree AS878 is the Ontario government network at 204.41.245.0/24, and that identity is used throughout this entry.

Operator

Government of Ontario, operating name GONET (org handle GOVER-10); Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services, Toronto, ON [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/878

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/878

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event for the AS857–AS885 block containing AS878; block last changed 2021-02-23) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/878

Org status

active (ARIN RDAP status field); org GOVER-10 registered 2007-09-24, last changed 2024-07-29 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/878

Contacts

abuse/NOC — Cyber Security Branch, CSOC@ontario.ca, +1-416-327-2100 (an older, unvalidated contact record still shows the prior ministry name "Ministry of Government Services") [Likely] — https://ipinfo.io/AS878

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search — not in Spamhaus ASN-DROP, NANOG archives, or general threat-intel search terms; sole flag is the uncorroborated bgp.he.net bogon notice

Network & routing

Network type

government network; single announced /24, consistent with an edge segment of a larger provincial WAN rather than a transit or content network [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS878, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.245.0/24), ~256 addresses, 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank 67,700; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS878, https://asrank.caida.org/asns/878

Routing/peering

1 observed BGP peer/upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); avg AS-path length ~4.6 hops across ~717 paths; PeeringDB lists the AS857 block's policy as Restrictive/private-only with no IX presence [Confirmed for peer/upstream; Likely for policy, sourced to PeeringDB rather than an operator policy page] — https://bgp.he.net/AS878, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/857

RPKI

no ROA coverage observed — 0 RPKI-valid and 0 RPKI-invalid origin counters for the announced prefix [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS878

Notable usage

no distinguishing public usage beyond serving as a small provincial-government edge announcement behind TELUS; bgp.he.net's automated toolkit flags the AS as announcing bogons, unverified against a second source [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS878

Related ASNs

part of the AS857–AS885 block registration, all under org GOVER-10 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/878

Analyst note

no individual AS878 RDAP record exists; ARIN registers AS857–AS885 as a single flat autnum object handled AS857, so querying AS878 legitimately returns that block record. A search angle surfaced a different, unrelated company also named "GONET" in the Czech Republic (gonet.cz) — that is name-collision noise, not this ASN; RDAP and bgp.he.net independently confirm AS878 as the Ontario government network.