Re: Question about Customer Population by ASN for Canada

[Filip Hruska <fhr () fhrnet eu>]

Hi,

There are various reasons that might be causing this:
* Lots of VPNs on OVH network
* OVH offers "desktop-as-a-service" and from what I understand it's 
quite popular
* OVH is also a home ISP - just in France though; but not sure if/how 
APNIC separated OVH as an ISP and OVH as a server provider.
I think it's all under the same ASN (might be wrong though)
* There are some scrapers on the OVH network - definitely not half a 
million though


Best Regards,
Filip Hruska

Dne 10/2/17 v 22:05 Stephen Fulton napsal(a):
> Hi Jack,
>
> As OVH is a data centre, I find that extraordinary if eyeballs were 
> the cost.  VPN's may be popular but that seems excessive. Probably 
> bots of some sort, scraping the internet.
>
> -- Stephen
>
> On 2017-10-02 3:57 PM, Jacques Latour wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I'm working on our IPv6 and DNSSEC adoption report for Canada and the 
> > data I use comes largely from APNIC 
> > (https://stats.labs.apnic.net/dnssec/CA) and 
> > (https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/CA).
> >
> > Labs.APNIC has a pretty cool system to measure this kind of stuff by 
> > deploying specially crafted google ads, see "How Big is that 
> > Network?"  https://labs.apnic.net/?p=526, and APNIC is able to assess 
> > the population behind a network based on ad placement distribution. 
> > See https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA for Canada.
> >
> > The question I have is why does OVH come #6 with an estimated 
> > population of 1,480,927 behind its ASN? Remember these are actual 
> > placement of ads.  Should I count those users as part of my stats?
> >
> > Rank    ASN     AS Name CC      Users (est.)    % of country % of 
> > Internet   Samples
> > 1       AS812   ROGERS-CABLE - Rogers Cable Communications Inc. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 5,420,034       
> > 16.72   0.16    555,718
> > 2       AS577   BACOM - Bell Canada 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 4,474,012       
> > 13.8    0.132   458,722
> > 3       AS6327  SHAW - Shaw Communications Inc. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 3,708,414       
> > 11.44   0.109   380,225
> > 4       AS852   ASN852 - TELUS Communications Inc. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 2,914,405       
> > 8.99    0.086   298,815
> > 5       AS5769  VIDEOTRON - Videotron Telecom Ltee 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 2,189,946       
> > 6.76    0.065   224,536
> > 6       AS16276 OVH 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 1,480,927       
> > 4.57    0.044   151,840
> > 7       AS15290 ALLST-15290 - Allstream Corp. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 1,272,374       
> > 3.93    0.038   130,457
> > 8       AS855   CANET-ASN-4 - Bell Aliant Regional Communications, 
> > Inc. CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 
> > 1,211,485       3.74    0.036   124,214
> > 9       AS7992  COGECOWAVE - Cogeco Cable 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 1,112,002       
> > 3.43    0.033   114,014
> > 10      AS5645  TEKSAVVY - TekSavvy Solutions, Inc. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 967,401 2.98    
> > 0.029   99,188
> > 11      AS11260 EASTLINK-HSI - EastLink 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 695,598 2.15    
> > 0.021   71,320
> > 12      AS47027 SEASIDE-COMM - Seaside Communications, Inc. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 425,561 1.31    
> > 0.013   43,633
> > 13      AS803   SASKTEL - Saskatchewan Telecommunications 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 392,186 1.21    
> > 0.012   40,211
> > 14      AS11814 DISTRIBUTEL-AS11814 - DISTRIBUTEL COMMUNICATIONS LTD. 
> > CA<https://stats.labs.apnic.net/cgi-bin/aspop?c=CA> 370,348 1.14    
> > 0.011   37,972
> >
> > Jack

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Best Regards,
Filip Hruska
Linux System Administrator