All, Hostcount once more. Again a nice increase of almost 10,000, to 221951. The only one country going down a bit is Hungary, due to unreachable nameservers. We welcome Great-Brittain (.gb) in the European networking scene ;-) Unfortunately due to a mistake, the files with all zone output are unavailable this time. They will return next month. Some people have suggested that parts of this hostcount could be done distributed, to get more accurate figures, and keep network load as low as possible. I am happy to discuss a scheme for this at the next RIPE meeting. Some people have requested to have the history of the hostcounts distributed with the hostcount every month, to keep track of what has passed over the months/years. You can find the previous hostcounts below the hostcount for August. Unfortunately, some of the counts are missing, mainly in the period when I did this still at NIKHEF. Also some of the earliest counts may not be as reliable as the last year or so. Much has changed to the program. Enjoy, -Marten RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Aug 3 1992 This Count : Mon Aug 31 1992 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 1 0 0 0 0 at 161 6831 26 6805 + 277 be 17 1512 55 1457 + 20 bg 1 0 0 0 0 by 0 0 0 0 0 ch 58 17888 106 17782 + 762 cs 10 686 62 624 + 624 de 855 48533 917 47616 + 1788 dk 72 3117 43 3074 + 295 dz 0 0 0 0 0 ee 1 37 0 37 + 37 es 149 3891 57 3834 + 115 fi 131 17018 150 16868 + 1005 fr 293 19343 180 19163 + 390 gb 1 1 0 1 + 1 gr 41 612 135 477 + 113 hr 0 0 0 0 0 hu 3 33 0 33 - 66 ie 22 667 4 663 + 37 is 8 447 1 446 + 46 it 176 5166 192 4974 + 122 il 40 2897 51 2846 + 65 lt 1 0 0 0 0 lu 5 79 1 78 0 lv 1 0 0 0 0 nl 260 21567 369 21198 + 937 no 299 15041 172 14869 + 625 pl 49 676 11 665 + 271 pt 47 1407 22 1385 + 60 ro 0 0 0 0 0 se 318 21912 175 21737 + 878 si 1 0 0 0 0 su 125 26 0 26 + 10 tn 2 9 0 9 + 1 ua 0 0 0 0 0 uk 306 39764 4493 35271 + 1316 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 2 13 0 13 0 ============================================================ 3456 229173 7222 221951 + 9729 History Oct 1990 31724 Nov 1990 33665 Dec 1990 29230 Jan 1991 43832 Feb 1991 - Mar 1991 44506 Apr 1991 46948 May 1991 - Jun 1991 63267 Jul 1991 - Aug 1991 73069 Sep 1991 92834 Oct 1991 104824 Nov 1991 129652 Dec 1991 - Jan 1992 - Feb 1992 161434 Mar 1992 167939 Apr 1992 170050 May 1992 182528 Jun 1992 196758 Jul 1992 213017 Aug 1992 221951