For some reason my previous email was empty. What I wrote:
"Some of these numbers are largely inflated... e.g. Teksavvy at 937,855 estimated users. How can they have 937,855 users if they "only" have 686,848 IPv4 (https://bgp.he.net/AS5645)? Also, Allstream/Zayo AS15290 has a lot of IPs but it's mostly corps/govs. So it's a mix of inflated and false positives. Eric" Eric On October 2, 2017 at 4:15:53 PM, Filip Hruska (f...@fhrnet.eu) wrote: 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 >> >> >> >> > -- Best Regards, Filip Hruska Linux System Administrator