April 1998 - ripe-list - mailman.ripe.net

Looking for sites interested in hosting a test-box
by Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) 14 May '98

14 May '98

Dear colleagues, The Test-Traffic Project group is pleased to announce that 20 test-boxes have been built and are ready to be installed at topologically interesting places around Europe. These test-boxes measure the delays on the network by sending time-stamped packets to each other. More information about the Test-Traffic Project can be found on the home-page of the Test-Traffic Project at http://www.ripe.net/test-traffic. If you are interested in hosting a test-box, please start by reading the RIPE documents 168 (version 2.0) and 179, which should contain everything that you need to know about hosting a test-box at your site. Both documents are available from the Test Traffic project home-page. If your site can meet all requirements, please fill out the application form at http://www.ripe.net/test-traffic/host_testbox.html. If anything is unclear or if your site is interested in hosting a test-box but cannot meet all requirements, do not hesitate to contact us. If you have already expressed interest in hosting a test-box, please fill out the form too. It is our goal to distribute the test-boxes amongst topologically interesting places, while at the same time keeping the location of the test-boxes manageable from an operational point of view. Also note that the number of test-boxes is limited and that the project is still in a pilot phase. This means that we may decide that we will not install a test-box at your site even though you applied for one. There is no deadline for applying. We plan to review all applications in the week after Easter (April 12) and let the interested sites know which sites will receive a test-box. We will continue to accept applications until all test-boxes have been installed. Kind regards, Henk Uijterwaal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal(a)ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.535-4414, Fax -4445 1016 AB Amsterdam Home: +31.20.4195305 The Netherlands Pager: +6.57626855 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %DCL-E-NOCFFE, unable to locate coffee - keyboard input suspended.

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RIPE 30 in Stockholm - Reminder
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 27 Apr '98

27 Apr '98

Dear Colleagues, [Apologies for duplicate mails] We would like to remind you that the registration for RIPE 30 in Stockholm: 18, 19 and 20 May 1998, is still open. Social event: please note that we will stop registering people for the dinner on *Monday 11 May* . Also please let us know before that time if you would like a vegetarian meal. To facilitate the registration process we have decided to open registration on site, on Sunday 17 May; the night before the meeting starts. If you want to avoid an early morning queue you are welcome to register at KTH between 16:00 and 21:00. For more information please look at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE Meeting Registrations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %START Do not change the following field %MTG [ ripe30 ] Please add a value in the 'box' area marked between the square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]" s). If values are already supplied between the brackets, please delete all values except one. PART 1 - Registration Note this is what will be used for your badge and for the attendee list, so please take care to fill it in correctly. 1) Your name Please enter your first name. First name first, surname last. e.g. John , Mary B. %NAME [ ] Please enter your surname next e.g. Doe %SURNAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) The NCC Reg-id of your Organisation %REGID [ ] (Only if you represent a Local Internet Registry) 4) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 5) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] PART 2 - Payment of Registration Fees WARNING!! - Note that sending your credit card information via e-mail is in principle not secure. The payment information will be transmitted in clear via e-mail. If you do not want to do this, please leave your credit card details blank in this form, and send them to us by fax. Please do not forget to mention your name and organisation on the fax, so there will be no risk in us getting confused. Our fax number is: +31 20 535 44 45 1) Method of payment. Payment in advance is greatly preferred. (please delete all choices except one) %PMETH [in advance; credit card at meeting; credit card at meeting; cash ] 2) Type of credit card (please delete all choices except one) %CTYPE [ VISA / American Express / Mastercard ] 3) Card number %CCNUM [ ] 4) Expiry date %CCDATE [ ] 5) Card holders name %CCNAME [ ] 6) Card holders address %CCADDR [ ] 7) Amount to be paid %AMT [RIPE Meeting only; ECU 100 RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner; ECU 165 ] For those of you paying in cash, the amount will be: 850 SEK for the meeting only and 1400 SEK for meeting + dinner. Your payment cannot be processed after May 8th, 1998 with this form. You are welcome to send in your personal data with this form to register, but the payment can only be made at the meeting itself on May 17th and 18th, 1998 %END

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Private Invitation
by 81400987＠hotmail.com 18 Apr '98

18 Apr '98

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Your Search Engine Listing
by list＠ListMe.com 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

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by 82644304＠netcom.com 16 Apr '98

16 Apr '98

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RIPE 30 in Stockholm - Reminder
by RIPE NCC Meeting Registration 14 Apr '98

14 Apr '98

Dear Colleagues, We would like to remind you that the registration for RIPE 30 in Stockholm: 18, 19 and 20 May 1998, has been opened. For more information please look at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/ripe/mtg.html The social event will take place on a boat this time: "The m/s Gustafsberg VII" Departure Tuesday 19th May from Nybrokajen (near SAS Radisson Strand Hotel) at 18:30. Return to Nybrokajen at 23:30. PLEASE NOTE: we will stop registering people for the dinner on *Monday 11 May* If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <meeting(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards, Naomi de Bruyn RIPE Meeting Registrations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %START Do not change the following field %MTG [ ripe30 ] Please add a value in the 'box' area marked between the square brackets (i.e. "[" and "]" s). If values are already supplied between the brackets, please delete all values except one. PART 1 - Registration Note this is what will be used for your badge and for the attendee list, so please take care to fill it in correctly. 1) Your name Please enter your first name. First name first, surname last. e.g. John , Mary B. %NAME [ ] Please enter your surname next e.g. Doe %SURNAME [ ] 2) Your Organisation/Institution %ORG [ ] 3) The NCC Reg-id of your Organisation %REGID [ ] (Only if you represent a Local Internet Registry) 4) Your e-mail address %EMAIL [ ] 5) Country code of organisation e.g. IT FR DE %CTRY [ ] PART 2 - Payment of Registration Fees WARNING!! - Note that sending your credit card information via e-mail is in principle not secure. The payment information will be transmitted in clear via e-mail. If you do not want to do this, please leave your credit card details blank in this form, and send them to us by fax. Please do not forget to mention your name and organisation on the fax, so there will be no risk in us getting confused. Our fax number is: +31 20 535 44 45 1) Method of payment. Payment in advance is greatly preferred. (please delete all choices except one) %PMETH [in advance; credit card at meeting; credit card at meeting; cash ] 2) Type of credit card (please delete all choices except one) %CTYPE [ VISA / American Express / Mastercard ] 3) Card number %CCNUM [ ] 4) Expiry date %CCDATE [ ] 5) Card holders name %CCNAME [ ] 6) Card holders address %CCADDR [ ] 7) Amount to be paid %AMT [RIPE Meeting only; ECU 100 RIPE Meeting plus RIPE dinner; ECU 165 ] Your payment cannot be processed after May 8th, 1998 with this form. You are welcome to send in your personal data with this form to register, but the payment can only be made at the meeting itself on May 18th, 1998 %END

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Hostcount for March 1998
by Lee Wilmot 06 Apr '98

06 Apr '98

Dear All, here is the hostcount for March 1998. I apologise for the delay caused by technical problems experienced by some of the larger TLD's. The table shows an increase since last month of over 200,000 (or 3.4%) to a total of approximately 6,320,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. de shows the highest increase for March with more than 70,000 hosts more than in February. The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services has hosted the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler(a)univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech(a)dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider(a)switch.ch> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis(a)forthnet.gr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)heanet.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli(a)cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi(a)cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider(a)switch.ch> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek(a)nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando(a)rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)ripn.net> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli(a)cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi(a)cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Robert Stone <robert(a)nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Feb 27 1998 This Count : Mon Apr 6 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 11 142 4 138 + 13 am 76 746 118 628 + 81 at 16275 160959 30262 130697 + 3726 az 27 419 13 406 - 16 ba 26 446 18 428 + 44 be 8988 191131 16019 175112 + 2063 bg 460 8350 459 7891 + 313 by 71 868 85 783 + 189 ch 28633 230796 29349 201447 + 2813 cy 491 4414 99 4315 + 85 cz 10208 66689 5938 60751 + 692 de 103355 1446033 210108 1235925 + 73441 dk 43820 213378 25142 188236 + 8497 dz 2 49 0 49 + 4 ee 1547 19564 1078 18486 + 411 eg 487 2932 153 2779 + 120 es 8855 218902 6931 211971 + 9111 fi 6813 431801 11325 420476 + 7835 fo 100 318 10 308 + 5 fr 19563 455927 38010 417917 + 18153 gb 2 42 0 42 0 ge 34 537 32 505 + 59 gr 2196 27094 2096 24998 - 7552 hr 1338 10468 1490 8978 - 259 hu 4240 83152 7372 75780 + 2473 ie 4621 48031 5170 42861 + 881 il 5423 109648 11521 98127 + 2976 is 1052 20840 604 20236 + 480 it 29399 315817 38907 276910 + 8599 li 458 1497 474 1023 + 58 lt 622 4601 332 4269 - 25 lu 1073 6295 973 5322 + 321 lv 584 9849 1530 8319 + 312 ma 123 1586 162 1424 + 100 md 37 339 58 281 + 21 mk 47 573 44 529 + 32 mt 182 1543 205 1338 + 302 nl 31439 477158 46102 431056 + 21580 no 16843 322675 13860 308815 + 3711 pl 11269 117164 14223 102941 + 4928 pt 5409 47486 3720 43766 + 630 ro 1224 16578 1263 15315 + 995 ru 10484 140467 17323 123144 + 1568 se 25586 378449 22276 356173 + 3526 si 2272 22867 2338 20529 + 751 sk 3289 18476 3106 15370 - 391 sm 31 230 9 221 + 1 su 945 43722 1609 42113 - 138 tn 8 183 88 95 + 2 tr 5016 42566 4180 38386 + 849 ua 995 22944 6070 16874 + 799 uk 94763 1354805 203117 1151688 + 34332 va 2 11 0 11 0 yu 1115 5519 466 5053 - 382 ============================================================== 511929 7107076 785841 6321235 +209119

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NATO Advanced Networking Workshop - REMAINDER
by Kevin Meynell 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

All, Just a reminder that anyone wishing to apply to attend the next NATO Advanced Networking Workshop should submit their application forms by Friday (3 April 1998). Information about the workshop and an application form are available from: http://www.terena.nl/conf/nato-anw98/ The usual apologies to those that receive multiple copies of this message. Regards, Kevin Meynell ---- Application for NATO Advanced Networking Workshop - Promoting High-Speed Networks 18-22 May 1998 Introduction ------------ TERENA is once again organising a NATO Advanced Networking Workshop following the success of previous events in Budapest and Edinburgh. This year's workshop will be held on the 18th to 22nd May 1998 in Kaunas, Lithuania, with a theme of 'Promoting High-Speed Networks'. The workshop is aimed at those who are currently running national networks services, but who will, in the near future, be moving to newer technologies. Content will be practical and technology-oriented, but will also cover the network management and application-level issues that arise with the newer technology. The event will be a single-track workshop with classroom-style lectures complemented by hands-on technical sessions. For more details about the workshop, please see: http://www.terena.nl/conf/nato-anw98/ TERENA is grateful to Bay Networks Inc. for providing equipment and personnel that make this workshop possible. ------8<------8<------8<------ cut here ------8<------8<------8<------ APPLICATION =========== Please complete *all* sections as fully as possible and return to: nato-anw98(a)terena.nl Any additional information should be appended in plain text format. 1. Personal data ---------------- FAMILY NAME: First Name: Sex[1]: Male / Female (please delete) Date-of-birth: Employer: Business Address: Country[2]: Business Telephone: Business Fax: E-mail: 2. Administration ----------------- a) Accommodation - Please note that participants will be required to share twin hotel rooms for the duration of the workshop and conference. If you have any objections to this, please let us know the reasons here: b) Travel - Please indicate the approximate cost in US$ of the cheapest method of travel from your place of residence to Kaunas, Lithunia[3]: 3. Description of the candidate's role in National Networking Activities ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a) Please give a brief summary of your educational background: b) Please supply a description of your current employer, position, duties and responsibilities and how they relate to current and future networking activities in your country: c) Please outline details of work you have done with inter-networking, and what you hope to achieve in the future with the help of the knowledge gained at the workshop: d) Upon your return from the workshop, how would you expect to disseminate the knowledge you gain through attendance at the workshop: e) Please give details of any NATO Advanced Networking Workshops you have participated in previously: 4. Please append any additional information in support of your application here, in plain text: -------------------------------- ------8<------8<------8<------ cut here ------8<------8<------8<------ Notes: [1] Please note that participants will be required to share twin hotel rooms for the duration of the workshop and conference. [2] Please note that only residents of NATO Co-operation Partner (CP) countries are eligible to attend this workshop and receive assistance from NATO. Eligible countries are: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. NATO countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. [3] Accommodation will be provided for seven nights. Dates of travel should be arranged so that a Saturday night is included (i.e. you should either arrive on Sunday, 17th May and depart on Sunday, 24th May; or alternatively arrive on Saturday, 16th May and depart on Saturday, 23rd May. Please note, should you choose to spend any additional time in Kaunas before travelling home, you must assume any costs incurred.

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