AS881

AS881 is an active but tightly single-homed government stub ASN: it belongs to the Government of Ontario's internal network (GONET), announces exactly one IPv4 /24, and carries no downstream customers or public peers. It is not a commercial ISP or transit provider despite third-party databases labeling it generically as "ISP" type.

The ASN falls inside a consecutive ARIN block registration, handle AS857 ("GONET-ASN-17"), spanning AS857 through AS885 and registered to org GOVER-10. Its registrant name has drifted over time: the ARIN org vCard still shows the older "Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services," while the org's administrative/technical POC record was updated in mid-2025 to the current name, "Government of Ontario, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services."

Routing data is consistent across RIPEstat and CAIDA: AS881 announces one IPv4 prefix (204.41.248.0/24, 256 addresses) and zero IPv6 space. CAIDA's customer cone is a singleton — the ASN itself, one prefix, 256 addresses — with asnDegree showing one provider, zero peers, and zero customers, a leaf/stub topology. bgp.he.net corroborates a single BGP relationship with AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.), Ontario's sole observed upstream. No PeeringDB record exists for AS881 (404 as of an August 2026 check), and no public peering-policy statement was found on ontario.ca, so the network's peering stance is private/unpublished rather than confirmed open or restrictive.

Exposure

Single-homed stub AS behind one upstream (AS852/TELUS); minimal external attack surface beyond the announced /24, and no IXP or public peering presence was found.

Abuse signal

No blocklist, spam, phishing, or malware-hosting association with AS881 was found in a general web search as of an August 2026 search; several primary feed lookups (Spamhaus ASN lookup, URLhaus ASN page, AbuseIPDB) returned bot-verification blocks rather than data, so those specific feeds are unqueried, not confirmed clean.

Abuse contact

ARIN lists an abuse/security POC entity (CSB8-ARIN, "Cyber Security Branch") on the record, but ARIN's own remark notes no response from that POC since 2023-11-07 — the listed contact is stale.

RPKI

No ROA was found for 204.41.248.0/24; RIPEstat's rpki-validation endpoint (validator: routinator) returns status "unknown," corroborated by bgp.he.net showing no RPKI validation record.

Community record

No NANOG archive threads, Reddit discussion, or documented outages referencing AS881 were found as of an August 2026 search.

Operator

Government of Ontario, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Infrastructure Technology Services (RIR registrant org "GONET", ARIN handle GOVER-10; older org vCard label "Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services" persists unchanged)

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/881

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/881

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level "registration" event for the AS857–AS885 block, handle AS857 "GONET-ASN-17", which AS881 falls within — no separate per-ASN autnum record exists); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/881

Org status

active — ARIN reports status "active" for the AS857-885 autnum block; org GOVER-10 is a currently registered ARIN organization with an administrative/technical POC (OIA3-ARIN) last changed 2025-07-30

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/881, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Contacts

registrant address 222 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada; abuse/security POC handle CSB8-ARIN ("Cyber Security Branch", unresponsive since 2023-11-07); administrative/technical POC handle OIA3-ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/881

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of an August 2026 search; Spamhaus, URLhaus, and AbuseIPDB lookups were blocked by bot-verification interstitials rather than returning substantive data, so those feeds remain unqueried rather than confirmed clean; ARIN's listed abuse POC (CSB8-ARIN) has not responded since 2023-11-07 per ARIN's own remark

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise internal network, not a commercial ISP or transit provider; third-party DBs (IPinfo) label it "ISP" type but topology (one upstream, zero peers/customers) is a single-homed government stub [Likely] — https://ipinfo.io/AS881

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.248.0/24, 256 addresses), 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/announced-prefixes/data.json?resource=AS881, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/881

Routing/peering

single-homed — CAIDA asnDegree provider=1, peer=0, customer=0; sole observed BGP relationship is AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) per bgp.he.net; RIPEstat observed_neighbours=1; no PeeringDB record (404 as of Aug 2026); no published peering policy found [Confirmed for topology; Unknown for policy stance] — https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/881, https://bgp.he.net/AS881, https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/881, https://stat.ripe.net/data/routing-status/data.json?resource=AS881

RPKI

no ROA found for 204.41.248.0/24; RIPEstat rpki-validation status "unknown" (validator routinator), corroborated by bgp.he.net showing no RPKI-valid/invalid record [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS881&prefix=204.41.248.0/24, https://bgp.he.net/AS881

Notable usage

one ASN within org GOVER-10's contiguous AS857–AS885 block ("GONET-ASN-17") used for Government of Ontario internal IP/network infrastructure; the same org also holds AS808 ("GONET-ASN-1") plus multiple IPv4 blocks (e.g. 138.218.0.0/16 "ONT-GOV4", 142.15.0.0/16, 142.18.0.0/16, 142.61.0.0/16, 192.75.102.0/23, 192.75.143.0/24, 192.75.183.0/24) and an IPv6 /32 (2607:F228::/32, "GOVERNMENT-OF-ONTARIO"); no evidence of commercial/transit usage

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/881

Related ASNs

AS857–AS885 (same GONET-ASN-17 block); AS808 (GONET-ASN-1, same org GOVER-10) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Analyst note

single-homed Government of Ontario stub ASN (one /24, one upstream via AS852/TELUS, zero peers/customers). RIR registration date (1990-08-07) is a first-party ARIN RDAP block-level fact carried forward as this ASN's allocated_date. No confirmed abuse signal, but several abuse-feed sources were bot-blocked rather than checked, and the registry's own abuse contact has gone stale since late 2023.