Dear all, Here is the hostcount for February 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 140,000 (or 2,3%) to a total of over 6,000,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. Be shows the highest increase for February with more than 60,000 hosts more than in January. Some of the zones show a significant decrease this month, but we currently do not have resources to further look into this. This situation should improve as of next month I will hand this task over to Lee Wilmot, one of my colleagues. This means that we will have more resources to analyse anomalies. 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 is hosting 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 <winkler@cc.univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster@nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert@dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala@eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@nic.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Feb 3 1998 This Count : Fri Feb 27 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 11 129 4 125 + 1 am 70 650 103 547 + 67 at 14887 155886 28915 126971 +16453 az 22 437 15 422 - 2 ba 16 387 3 384 + 23 be 8518 190128 17079 173049 +61166 bg 492 8079 501 7578 + 578 by 60 675 81 594 - 75 ch 27311 225688 27054 198634 + 6451 cy 458 4331 101 4230 + 49 cz 9265 66588 6529 60059 + 258 de 95806 1362095 199611 1162484 +22416 dk 40563 203803 24064 179739 + 7208 dz 2 45 0 45 0 ee 1459 19045 970 18075 + 1194 eg 457 2790 131 2659 + 2297 es 8112 208877 6017 202860 + 1175 fi 6549 424051 11410 412641 -88570 fo 94 311 8 303 + 7 fr 17073 434955 35191 399764 +30404 gb 2 42 0 42 + 2 ge 29 474 28 446 + 45 gr 2515 28414 2262 26152 - 247 hr 1273 10674 1437 9237 + 1073 hu 3917 80180 6873 73307 + 2011 ie 4429 44974 2994 41980 + 1094 il 5122 106223 11072 95151 + 1909 is 973 20319 563 19756 + 516 it 26820 303624 35313 268311 -23119 li 370 1390 425 965 + 97 lt 652 4588 294 4294 + 123 lu 1042 5948 947 5001 + 93 lv 542 9331 1324 8007 + 1537 ma 111 1398 74 1324 + 1 md 30 311 51 260 + 8 mk 47 542 45 497 + 265 mt 159 1157 121 1036 + 18 nl 29554 449887 40411 409476 + 8180 no 15917 317997 12893 305104 + 9989 pl 9933 108021 12388 95633 + 4777 pt 5228 46638 3502 43136 + 511 ro 1111 15307 987 14320 + 377 ru 9912 137295 15719 121576 +11591 se 24547 373916 21269 352647 - 7996 si 2112 22209 2431 19778 + 378 sk 3262 18690 2929 15761 + 515 sm 28 229 9 220 + 6 su 944 43814 1563 42251 - 685 tn 8 174 81 93 0 tr 4787 41801 4264 37537 + 2200 ua 896 21651 5576 16075 + 658 uk 89935 1323362 206006 1117356 +59149 va 2 11 0 11 0 yu 1031 5771 336 5435 + 70 ============================================================ 478465 6855312 751974 6103338 +136246