AS882

AS882 is an active autonomous system registered under ARIN to GONET, the Government of Ontario's network infrastructure arm, and it is not dormant: it currently announces one IPv4 prefix, 204.41.249.0/24, with a single observed upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.). No IPv6 space is announced.

The ASN sits inside a larger ARIN block, AS857–AS885 (name GONET-ASN-17), registered to org handle GOVER-10 — the Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services, at 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON. The block's top-level RDAP registration event dates to 1990-08-07, last changed 2021-02-23; the GOVER-10 org record itself was registered separately, in 2007.

The source RDAP autnum object's top-level "handle" field reads "AS857," and one self-link points to autnum/857 — this is expected, not an inconsistency: ARIN registers AS857–AS885 as a single flat autnum object handled AS857, so querying AS882 legitimately returns that block record; only the links[].value fields point at 882. Registrant details independently confirm AS882 as GONET/Government of Ontario.

No dedicated GONET or AS882 operator website was located — a check of ontario.ca's Ontario Digital Service page turned up no mention — and no PeeringDB network record exists for the ASN (API query returned 404). Third-party lookup data (ipinfo.io) characterizes it as a small stub government network with no published peering policy, consistent with the single-upstream routing picture above.

Operator

GONET — Government of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services / Infrastructure Technology Services (ARIN org handle GOVER-10) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/882

Org status

active (ARIN org GOVER-10) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (CSB8-ARIN, Cyber Security Branch — abuse/routing/technical/noc roles, unvalidated since 2023-11-07); TechnologyContactforGlobalIPAddressing@ontario.ca (OIA3-ARIN, Ontario IP Administration — validated); registered address 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/882

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse signal found as of 2026-08-09 — zero NANOG archive hits, no flags on ipinfo.io, inconclusive Spamhaus ASN-blocklist query (404/403 on both URLs checked); bgp.he.net's automated "announces bogons" label is reported as an observed page state, not a confirmed finding, since Routinator returns no invalid origin for the announced prefix; Talos, AbuseIPDB, and bgpstream.com were unreachable during this search

Network & routing

Network type

government network (Ontario Public Service infrastructure); stub AS, not a commercial ISP [Likely] — https://ipinfo.io/AS882

Size

1 IPv4 prefix, 204.41.249.0/24 (256 addresses); 0 IPv6 prefixes; CAIDA AS rank 67,700; customer cone = singleton (1 ASN; 1 prefix; 256 addresses) [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS882, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/882

Routing/peering

single observed upstream/peer, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); no PeeringDB network record exists for AS882 (API query returned 404); no published peering policy found [Likely] — https://bgp.he.net/AS882, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=882

RPKI

no ROA covers 204.41.249.0/24 — Routinator returns status unknown, validating_roas empty, checked_count 1, complete true; unvalidated, not invalid [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS882, https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS882

Notable usage

Unknown beyond RIR-registered facts; no operator-published usage/traffic description or dedicated GONET/AS882 web page found (checked ontario.ca's Ontario Digital Service page) [Unknown] — https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-digital-service

Related ASNs

falls within ARIN block AS857–AS885 (name GONET-ASN-17), registered to the same GONET/Government of Ontario org [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/882

Data quality note

the RDAP autnum object's top-level "handle" reads "AS857" and one self-link targets autnum/857; ARIN registers AS857–AS885 as a single flat autnum object (handle AS857, startAutnum 857, endAutnum 885) covering AS882, so this is the expected handle for a block-level record, not a payload defect — only the links[].value fields point at autnum/882

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/882

Analyst note

small, single-homed Government of Ontario network — one /24, no IPv6, one upstream (AS852/TELUS) [Likely] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/882