Autonomous system
AS11489 BACI
Unclassified ARIN
Summary
Bell Canada (BACI)
government enterprise isp legacy
BACI is registered to Bell Canada (ARIN records the ASN from 1998, Ottawa), but what it actually carries is the Government of Quebec. RIS sees 39 IPv4 prefixes and roughly 308,000 addresses — a large inventory — against only 2 observed BGP neighbours and no IPv6 at all.
What it's used for
Managed network services for Quebec public bodies. Read the prefix registrants and the picture is unambiguous: 132.221.0.0/16 is registered to the Ministère des Transports du Québec, 142.213.0.0/16 to the Gouvernement du Québec, and a whole family of blocks — 142.83.0.0/16, 142.84.128.0/17, 142.85.0.0/17, 142.83.192.0/18 and more — to Santé Québec, the province's health agency. Bell is the carrier; the address space belongs to its customer. This is the textbook carrier-announces-customer-PI-space pattern, and the registrants here are not unrelated third parties but a single provincial government's departments, which is why it should not be read as leased or brokered address space.
Notable
The routing shape is worth pausing on. Three hundred thousand addresses would suggest a substantial ISP, yet only two neighbours are observed — a wholesale carrier peers with hundreds. That combination says a single-purpose AS: one big customer relationship, homed into Bell, aggregating a province's ministries and hospitals rather than selling transit. Geolocation of this space should follow Quebec, not Bell's Ottawa registration address.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-10, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 50 prefixes · 308K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Canada | 50 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- ARIN
- Handle
AS11489- Registry name
- BACI
- Registrant
- Bell Canada
- Abuse contact
- abuse@bellnexxia.net
- Registered
- 1998-09-10
- Last changed
- 2018-04-23
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 38 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11489
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 38 of 38 announcements
- Route objects
- 50 naming AS11489
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 431 networks and 1,775 prefixes, as published 2026-10-11. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere