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2026 check), and no public peering-policy statement was found on ontario.ca, so the network's peering stance is private/unpublished rather than confirmed open or restrictive.

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.