AS883

AS883 is an active, single-prefix ASN registered to GONET — the Government of Ontario's internal network, run by the province's Infrastructure Technology Services branch — and it carries very light routing today: exactly one IPv4 /24 and no IPv6 space, per ARIN RDAP and bgp.he.net.

The ASN sits inside a larger ARIN-registered block, AS857–AS885 ("GONET-ASN-17"), whose registrant is GOVER-10 (Government of Ontario, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery). ARIN's top-level registration event for that block dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed event of 2021-02-23; both are first-party registry facts, not third-party scrapes.

The only visible prefix, 204.41.250.0/24 (256 addresses), is announced through a single upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) — CAIDA's AS-relationship inference (provider 1, peer 0, customer 0) settles the adjacency as a provider relationship, not a settlement-free peer. No PeeringDB record exists for AS883, and no official peering-policy statement from GONET or ontario.ca was found, so peering posture beyond that upstream relationship is recorded as Unknown.

CAIDA places AS883 at rank 67,700 with a singleton customer cone (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses). No ROA covers the announced prefix — Routinator returns status unknown, validating_roas empty, checked_count 1, complete true — so RPKI validation is unvalidated rather than invalid.

Operator

GONET — Government of Ontario, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery, Infrastructure Technology Services (org handle GOVER-10), 222 Jarvis St, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP entity/GOVER-10, ARIN RDAP autnum/883

Country / RIR

Canada, ARIN [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP entity GOVER-10 address; RIPEstat as-overview (announced=true, status=ok, queried 2026-08-09)

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP autnum top-level registration event for the enclosing AS857-885 block, handle AS857 "GONET-ASN-17", returned when querying AS883); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/857

Org status

Active per ARIN RDAP (AS857-885 block, handle AS857, name GONET-ASN-17) [Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/883

Contacts

abuse — CSOC@ontario.ca (Cyber Security Branch), also confirmed via RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder; Ontario IP Administration (OIA3-ARIN, validated); Domain Registration (DOMAI415-ARIN, unvalidated since 2019-12-03); HQ 222 Jarvis Street, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6

[Confirmed] — ARIN RDAP autnum/883, RIPEstat abuse-contact-finder

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no notable public abuse/threat signal found as of 2026-08-09 — not listed on bgp.he.net, no Shodan InternetDB record for 204.41.250.1, no relevant DuckDuckGo results; AbuseIPDB, Spamhaus, and Cisco Talos blocked automated lookups (HTTP 403) and are unverified rather than clean-checked

Network & routing

Network type

government/enterprise network (provincial internal network); not marketed as a commercial ISP or transit provider [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS883, ARIN RDAP entity/GOVER-10

Size

1 IPv4 prefix (204.41.250.0/24, 256 addresses estimate); 0 IPv6 prefixes [Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS883

Routing/peering

single upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) — CAIDA asnDegree provider 1 / peer 0 / customer 0 and RIPEstat observed_neighbours 1 confirm the relationship as a provider, not a settlement-free peer [Confirmed]; no PeeringDB record found (404) and no published peering policy

[Unknown for policy] — bgp.he.net/AS883, peeringdb.com/asn/883, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/883

RPKI

no ROA covers 204.41.250.0/24 — Routinator returns status unknown, validating_roas empty, checked_count 1, complete true; unvalidated, not invalid [Confirmed] — https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS883&prefix=204.41.250.0/24

Notable usage

no additional notable public usage, incidents, or commercial services tied to AS883 found beyond the single announced /24 [Likely] — bgp.he.net/AS883

Related ASNs

part of the ARIN-registered block AS857-AS885 ("GONET-ASN-17"), same registrant GOVER-10; other individual ASNs in that range were not separately verified [Likely] — ARIN RDAP autnum/857

Analyst note

AS883 is not an independent commercial operator but a small ASN inside a larger government-owned block assigned to the Government of Ontario for internal provincial IT infrastructure; live routing is minimal (a single /24) and the sole observed BGP adjacency (AS852, TELUS) is a provider relationship, not a settlement-free peer

[Confirmed] — bgp.he.net/AS883, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/883