Dear all, Here is the hostcount for February 1995. The hosts in the following domains are now counted locally: at be cy cz de fr gr ie il it pt sk uk I made two hostcounts for February: one was calculated in the usual way and the other was calculated incorporating the local counts for the domains above. I made some comparisons between the two sets of data and have published only the latter. When the hosts are counted centrally a significant number of zones are missed and not included in the total numbers. It seems clear therefor that the results are more reliable if they are produced locally for each domain. A few countries have made big increases again, to a total increase since last month of over 91,000 (or 8.3%) to almost 1,200,000 machines in the DNS in Europe. There is one thing to note about the de domain: It shows an enormous increase since last month. The person responsible for the hostcount in Germany did some research on that and found a zone with the following kind of A RR's: host.x.y.z.1. a x.y.z.1 host.x.y.z.2. a x.y.z.2 host.x.y.z.3. a x.y.z.3 host.x.y.z.4. a x.y.z.4 host.x.y.z.5. a x.y.z.5 host.x.y.z.6. a x.y.z.6 host.x.y.z.7. a x.y.z.7 host.x.y.z.8. a x.y.z.8 [...] 65,000 A RR's. In the actual hostcount are only 25,000 A RR's included because the host command contains a limit for hosts per zone: *** maximum of 25000 hostnames reached This implies that you can add another 40,000 hosts to the figures for the de domain. This incident shows what the hostcount actually represents: Technically, it is a count of A records in all zones that could be retrieved. Heuristically, it gives an approximate overview of the current machine population. This should remind us to be careful with the objectivity of the hostcount and the purposes we use it for. The hostcount can also be found under ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount If you have any comments or questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Mirjam RIPE NCC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Jan 31 1995 This Count : Tue Feb 28 1995 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 3 0 0 0 0 at 578 32052 319 31733 + 2805 az 3 16 0 0 - 16 be 330 19885 334 19551 + 486 bg 20 196 25 171 + 5 by 1 2 0 2 0 ch 380 54785 380 54405 + 2169 cy 4 8 3 5 - 82 cz 211 12750 185 12565 + 891 de 2839 251388 6508 244880 +35612 dk 323 28332 344 27988 + 640 dz 2 10 0 10 0 ee 63 1302 10 1292 - 124 eg 6 170 2 168 0 es 568 31905 533 31372 + 4332 fi 655 78914 1507 77407 + 5768 fo 13 438 0 438 + 436 fr 1281 99979 1300 98679 + 4567 gb 1 27 0 27 0 ge 1 0 0 0 0 gr 170 4015 221 3794 - 236 hr 73 1466 31 1435 - 21 hu 106 9003 52 8951 + 290 ie 67 6171 82 6089 - 238 il 255 14437 366 14071 + 429 is 87 5027 41 4986 + 229 it 1019 37432 1256 36176 + 3842 li 4 30 3 0 - 27 lt 17 166 2 164 + 9 lu 45 712 5 707 + 92 lv 20 642 6 636 + 18 ma 0 0 0 0 0 mk 1 0 0 0 0 mt 1 0 0 0 0 nl 739 93771 2482 91289 + 2010 no 891 54848 1626 53222 + 2960 pl 397 10952 854 10098 - 1255 pt 138 6380 70 6310 + 789 ro 24 536 37 499 + 1 ru 248 2713 271 2442 + 342 se 1077 89181 2691 86490 + 6832 si 115 2164 76 2088 + 255 sk 86 1712 32 1680 + 117 su 271 5784 297 5487 + 355 tn 3 64 7 57 0 tr 50 958 11 947 - 1174 ua 72 707 95 612 + 10 uk 3187 284070 25082 258988 +18689 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 16448 1245100 47146 1197911 +91807