Hostcount for September 1997

[Mirjam Kuehne <]

Dear all,

Here is the hostcount for September 1997. 

The table shows an increase since last month of over 160,000 (or 3.3%) 
to a total of over 5,000,000 (!) hosts in the DNS in Europe and
surrounding areas.

Over the last Quarter we saw an increase of almost 4000,000 hosts 
(or 8.0%).

FI shows the highest increase for September with more than 50,000 hosts
more than in August (when it showed a decrease of more than 17,000 hosts
after a significant increase in July). 

DE shows a decrease of over 15,000 hosts. This is mainly due to a
single zone that contains more than 32,000 hosts but has only one
nameserver. This nameserver could not be reached this time :(

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 intersted 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@localhost
be	DNS-BE Registration Office 	tech@localhost
ch	Marcel Schneider 	hostmaster@localhost
cy	Panagiotis Tzounakis 	pj@localhost
cz	Jiri Orsag 		<Jiri.Orsag@localhost
de	Peter Koch 		pk@localhost
dk	Robert Martin-Legene 	robert@localhost
es	Jose Sanchez-Seco 	<jose.sanchez@localhost
fi	Petri Ojala 		ojala@localhost
fr	Annie Renard		<Annie.Renard@localhost
gr	Dimitris Zisiadis 	zisiadis@localhost
hr	Ivan Maric		<Ivan.Maric@localhost
hu	Gabor Kiss 		kissg@localhost
ie	Mike Norris		mnorris@localhost
il	Sason Levi  		sason@localhost
it	Antonio_Blasco Bonito	bonito@localhost
no	Havard Eidnes 		<Havard.Eidnes@localhost
pl 	Mirek Luc 		mirek@localhost
pt	Armando Domingues	fccn@localhost
ru	Andrey Dobrotsvetov 	adbr@localhost
sk	Ivan Lescak 		<Ivan.Lescak@localhost
	Lubos Elias 		<Lubos.Elias@localhost
sm	Antonio_Blasco Bonito	bonito@localhost
tr	Yener Yigit		yener@localhost
uk	Kevin Hoadley 		<K.Hoadley@localhost
	Robert Stone		robert@localhost


If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,

Mirjam Kuehne
RIPE NCC


                  RIPE DNS Hostcount

Previous Count : Mon Sep  1 1997
This Count     : Tue Sep 30 1997

CY         SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL    CHANGE
============================================================
al           6         114           0         114    +    4
am          39         393          22         371         0
at       10254      113368       18923       94445    + 1169
az          11         151           2         149    +    2
ba           9          62           2          60    -   11
be        6580      101443        6708       94735    + 5002
bg         322        6535         334        6201    +  446
by          35         558          40         518    +   48
ch       17591      185091       17769      167322    + 6813
cy         352        3088          58        3030    + 1996
cz        4973       64907       10205       54702    + 1670
de       65224     1074195      139742      934453    -15934
dk       30956      163242       17323      145919    + 2896
dz           2          38           1          37         0
ee        1032       13890         689       13201    +  377
eg         308        2398          74        2324    +   62
es        6283      185379        6724      178655    + 5891
fi        5871      439659       10364      429295    +50357
fo          63         251          11         240    +    2
fr       11707      352963       21017      331946    + 9428
gb           1           0           0           0    -   40
ge          24         397          18         379    -    1
gr        1605       25810        1251       24559    - 1034
hr         910        8296        1154        7142    +  161
hu        2379       48888        4945       43943    -  235
ie        3306       37571        2322       35249    + 1547
il        3747       80081        6679       73402    + 8647
is         682       15861         431       15430    +  764
it       19289      302045       42039      260006    + 1396
li         224         909         200         709    +   23
lt         443        3451         208        3243    +  304
lu         739        5357         870        4487    +  380
lv         392        6964         838        6126    +  211
ma          68        1034         111         923    +   79
md          23         242          36         206    +   22
mk          35         446          23         423    +    5
mt         121         990         128         862    +  158
nl       21038      391954       26717      365237    +12268
no       11555      233061       11299      221762    + 5395
pl        5898       88864        8431       80433    + 2202
pt        4264       40299        2179       38120    + 2867
ro         785       12597         723       11874    + 3659
ru        6394      102962       11520       91442    +11663
se       20231      345999       17711      328288    +27008
si        1462       20564        2352       18212    +  473
sk        2027       14097        2631       11466    +  304
sm          22        1297         550         747    +    7
su         872       39881        1032       38849    -  397
tn           5          61          13          48    +    3
tr        3266       25324        2848       22476    - 5123
ua         584       14554        3359       11195    -  480
uk       66006     1093569      149372      944197    +20777
va           2          10           0          10         0
yu         620        3505         166        3339    -   66
============================================================
        340637     5674665      552164     5122501   +163165