Dear all, Here is the hostcount for November 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of over 82,000 (or 2.5%) to a total of almost 3,450,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. The UK shows the highest increase for November with more than 110,000 hosts more than in October (Remember the amount of hosts in the UK dropped significantly last month, now it is back to normal :) In some countries we see quite a significant decrease this month, also in countries were the hostcount is done remotely. We couldn't find any explanation for this besides general connectivity problems and servers not responding. Please note that FI consistently loses hosts (hidden behind firewalls?). BA is the first time included in the count. 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/ 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 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@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 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 Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> Please note, that the next hostcount (December 1996) will be published later than usual, approximately mid January. This is due to my holidays :) I hope this doesn't cause any inconveniences. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Oct 31 1996 This Count : Sat Nov 30 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 78 0 78 - 3 am 9 202 5 197 + 4 at 3706 97376 11849 85527 + 4591 az 6 49 1 48 + 29 ba 7 30 0 30 + 30 be 3475 65523 2534 62989 + 3050 bg 126 3168 151 3017 + 38 by 14 251 10 241 + 41 ch 6586 133636 6982 126654 + 7379 cy 149 1168 18 1150 + 104 cz 1555 40797 1362 39435 + 420 de 23980 727211 39091 688120 +35557 dk 4394 106028 4126 101902 + 7301 dz 1 0 0 0 - 18 ee 275 5729 117 5612 - 2312 eg 97 1969 109 1860 + 124 es 3296 110509 1943 108566 + 7344 fi 2560 199894 3558 196336 -112855 fo 23 96 0 96 + 7 fr 5522 228077 8104 219973 - 7211 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 13 188 2 186 + 19 gr 522 12339 644 11695 - 3559 hr 424 4508 733 3775 - 260 hu 908 32152 1666 30486 + 2226 ie 1368 26064 484 25580 + 618 il 1853 39648 3213 36435 - 5554 is 298 11033 111 10922 + 458 it 7306 154899 13173 141726 -10488 li 88 272 77 195 + 11 lt 190 1809 112 1697 + 44 lu 289 4062 774 3288 - 76 lv 159 5719 296 5423 + 697 ma 28 528 65 463 + 27 md 10 85 4 81 + 61 mk 21 237 4 233 + 22 mt 68 558 88 470 + 67 nl 9189 249097 9190 239907 + 7618 no 5340 153728 6082 147646 + 6132 pl 1970 52106 2506 49600 + 1459 pt 850 22695 771 21924 + 1483 ro 412 5447 186 5261 + 494 ru 1977 42373 3068 39305 + 2979 se 10234 249645 14278 235367 + 9425 si 563 26262 1136 25126 +12762 sk 394 7580 383 7197 + 127 sm 12 720 328 392 + 28 su 568 18375 895 17480 - 199 tn 4 44 3 41 - 1 tr 727 14135 768 13367 + 738 ua 306 7961 1505 6456 + 461 uk 34363 815905 106068 709837 +110739 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 187 1904 86 1818 + 371 ============================================================ 136431 3683914 248659 3435255 +82549