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
