Dear all, Here is the hostcount for March 1996. Certain zones have shown a decline in numbers were previously their numbers were seen to increase. There was no time to further investigate, but connectivity problems doen't seem to be likely as some of these zones are counted locally. But the table below still shows an increase since last month of almost 80,000 (or 3.2%) to a total of almost 2,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. This comes to a total increase of 12.6% during the last three month. This month Germany made it :) DE shows the highest increase for March with almost 30,000 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/hostcount/Ccodes 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 Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Christoph Graf <graf@chx400.switch.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@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg@sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek@nask.pl> pt Graca Carvalho <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@argo.net.kiae.su> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@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 : Thu Feb 29 1996 This Count : Sun Mar 31 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 59 0 59 + 1 am 4 101 3 98 0 at 1568 65712 3138 62574 - 2003 az 3 16 0 16 - 1 be 1648 37247 1341 35906 + 1877 bg 80 1591 67 1524 + 285 by 11 59 5 54 + 22 ch 2106 94558 2967 91591 + 6680 cy 65 564 10 554 + 177 cz 546 26546 467 26079 + 1428 de 8640 537851 21509 516342 +29534 dk 1269 62574 2723 59851 + 4400 dz 2 16 0 16 0 ee 228 5033 139 4894 + 280 eg 15 707 11 696 - 1 es 1477 65893 914 64979 + 3496 fi 1749 234102 3400 230702 - 7233 fo 5 20 0 20 - 527 fr 3002 158475 4445 154030 - 1615 gb 1 40 0 40 + 1 ge 9 66 0 66 - 2 gr 252 6999 345 6654 - 3246 hr 224 3629 614 3015 + 1751 hu 467 17595 146 17449 + 1177 ie 511 13418 212 13206 - 940 il 885 37511 2885 34626 + 2636 is 160 9998 103 9895 + 577 it 3548 100462 8157 92305 + 4916 li 24 73 9 64 - 10 lt 62 880 5 875 + 215 lu 65 868 28 840 - 1365 lv 81 3192 65 3127 + 179 ma 11 385 49 336 + 58 md 8 2 0 2 0 mk 13 143 20 123 + 17 mt 18 304 57 247 + 47 nl 2781 189092 3467 185625 + 1316 no 2636 108952 4109 104843 + 7449 pl 943 31585 1226 30359 + 2602 pt 506 13635 389 13246 - 130 ro 236 2531 80 2451 + 292 ru 632 17084 1378 15706 + 1466 se 4233 164698 6968 157730 - 3842 si 289 8209 667 7542 + 999 sk 158 4399 160 4239 + 743 sm 6 274 132 142 + 19 su 449 13142 524 12618 + 469 tn 3 64 4 60 - 24 tr 239 8346 119 8227 + 967 ua 172 3903 666 3237 + 348 uk 13784 552060 47110 504950 +21840 va 1 3 0 3 + 1 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 55833 2604666 120833 2483833 +77326