AS885

AS885 is an active, low-traffic government autonomous system registered to GONET, the Government of Ontario Network, and it currently originates exactly one IPv4 prefix — 204.41.252.0/24 — with no IPv6 announcements. ARIN does not register AS885 as a standalone object; it sits inside the shared block AS857-AS885 (registry name GONET-ASN-17), allocated as a single unit to the Government of Ontario's Ministry of Government Services.

The block's ARIN RDAP registration event dates to 1990-08-07, with a last-changed timestamp of 2021-02-23. GONET is the Ontario Public Service's internal government network, operated by the Ministry's Infrastructure Technology Services division; sibling ASN AS857 (the block-representative handle) holds its own PeeringDB record, and AS808 — a separately-registered sibling ASN under the same org, outside the AS857–AS885 block — holds its own PeeringDB record too, but AS885 itself has none, confirmed by comparing its PeeringDB lookup against a deliberately invalid control ASN, both returning the same empty response.

Routing-wise AS885 behaves as a single-homed stub: CAIDA ranks it 67,700 globally with a customer cone of just itself (1 ASN, 1 prefix, 256 addresses), and bgp.he.net shows one observed BGP peer, AS852 (TELUS Communications), consistent with a single-provider network carrying no downstream customers.

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. Separately, the sole prefix shows as "IRR Valid" on bgp.he.net, which reflects an Internet Routing Registry route object, not an RPKI ROA. No abuse signal was found in reachable sources as of an August 2026 search, though coverage was incomplete — several major abuse feeds returned blocked or empty responses rather than confirmed clean results.

Exposure

AS885 announces a single /24 (204.41.252.0/24, 256 addresses) via one upstream peer, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.) — bgp.he.net/AS885

Routing hygiene flag

bgp.he.net's automated page notes "AS885 announces bogons"; this is an unverified third-party flag, not corroborated against an authoritative bogon list — bgp.he.net/AS885

RPKI

No ROA covers 204.41.252.0/24 — Routinator returns status unknown, validating_roas empty (unvalidated, not invalid); the prefix's "IRR Valid" tag reflects an Internet Routing Registry route object, not RPKI validation — bgp.he.net/AS885

Abuse signal

none found as of an August 2026 search of Marginalia Search and the NANOG mail-archive.com mirror; Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, and AlienVault OTX could not be queried directly (403/404 responses), so this is a partial-coverage negative, not a full clearance — search conducted 2026-08-09

Contact hygiene

two of three ARIN-listed POCs are unvalidated, with no response recorded since 2023-11-07 (Cyber Security Branch) and 2019-12-03 (Domain Registration contact) — rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/885

Operator

GONET — Government of Ontario Network, operated by the Ontario Public Service / Ministry of Government Services, Infrastructure Technology Services division (ARIN registrant handle GOVER-10) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Country / RIR

CA, ARIN (registrant address 222 Jarvis St., 6th Floor, Toronto, ON) [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/885

Allocated

1990-08-07 (ARIN RDAP top-level registration event on the shared AS857-AS885 autnum object, registry name GONET-ASN-17); last changed 2021-02-23 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/885

Org status

active per ARIN RDAP; two of three listed POCs are unvalidated, with no response recorded since 2023-11-07 and 2019-12-03 [Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/885

Contacts

CSOC@ontario.ca (CSB8-ARIN, Cyber Security Branch, roles technical/routing/noc/abuse; ARIN records no response from this POC since 2023-11-07); registrant org GOVER-10, 222 Jarvis Street, 6th Floor, Toronto, ON M7A 0B6, Canada; routing/admin/DNS/technical contact OIA3-ARIN (validated)

[Confirmed] — https://rdap.arin.net/registry/autnum/885, https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/GOVER-10

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL, DATED)

no abuse signal found as of 2026-08-09 in Marginalia Search or the NANOG mail-archive.com mirror; Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, and AlienVault OTX returned 403/404 and could not be queried — a partial-coverage negative, not a clean bill of health

Network & routing

Network type

government / provincial-government enterprise network; not a commercial ISP [Likely] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857 (sibling record in same block)

Size

1 IPv4 prefix / 256 addresses announced (204.41.252.0/24); 0 IPv6 prefixes; customer cone = 1 ASN (itself), 1 prefix, 256 addresses [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS885, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/885

Routing/peering

single-homed stub; one observed peer/upstream, AS852 (TELUS Communications Inc.); CAIDA AS degree 1; AS885 has no PeeringDB network object of its own — confirmed via a control-ASN test

[Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS885, https://api.asrank.caida.org/v2/restful/asns/885, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=885

RPKI

no ROA covers 204.41.252.0/24 — Routinator returns status unknown, validating_roas empty, checked_count 1, complete true; unvalidated, not invalid. The announced prefix separately shows "IRR Valid" on bgp.he.net, an IRR route-object flag, not RPKI validation

[Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS885, https://stat.ripe.net/data/rpki-validation/data.json?resource=AS885&prefix=204.41.252.0/24

Notable usage

sole announced prefix is IRR-named "GONET"; forms part of the Government of Ontario's provincial network infrastructure [Confirmed] — https://bgp.he.net/AS885

Related ASNs

AS857 is the block-representative handle for the shared AS857–AS885 registration that AS885 sits inside; AS808 is a separate autnum object (handle AS808, startAutnum=endAutnum=808, name GONET-ASN-1) registered to the same org (GOVER-10) but outside that block — a sibling by organisation, not by block. Both are separate PeeringDB network objects with their own, differing peering policies, not attributable to AS885 itself

[Confirmed] — https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=857, https://www.peeringdb.com/api/net?asn=808

Analyst note

AS885 has no standalone ARIN registration — ARIN registers AS857–AS885 as a single flat autnum object handled AS857, so querying AS885 legitimately returns that block record; only the links[].value fields point at autnum/885.