Previous Count : Sun May 31 1992
This Hi folks,

better late than never here is the July host count.  I did not take as
much time as Marten usually does to re-count unreachable nameservers, so
the count may be a little low.  A list of domains for which no servers
responded is attached below. 

Generally one can say that growth continues as expected.  There are
still a lot of networks referenced which are not in the RIPE database. 
Please spread the word about the database in your vicinity. 

I have also heared quite some implicit and explicit critisism of the
counting and the numbers published.  They have been called "wild
guesses" and "unrealistic estimates".  Just to make it perfectly clear:
We count all hosts registered in the DNS.  There is no guessing
involved.  Files which list all hostnames counted can be found in
directory ftp.ripe.net:~ftp/ripe/hostcount which is accessible via the
usual RIPE document store access methods. Since usually some nameservers
cannot be reached at the time of the count the numbers are actually 
a lower bound of the real number of hosts registered. 

Another critisism has been that the count uses network bandwidth which
could be used for more useful things.  The answer to that is that we
count during the weekend when in most regions of the net there is
sufficient bandwith for all applications. 

For DNS administrators it might be a good idea to look at the error
files in the hostcount directory mentioned above. It might give you
some suggestions for improving your DNS setup.

Regards

Daniel

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                  RIPE DNS Hostcount

Previous Count     : Mon Jun 29 1992

 This Count     : Mon Aug 3

 CY         SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL    CHANGE
============================================================
al           1           0           0           0         0
at         139        6225          25        6200    + 1057
be          16        1127          11        1116    +   14
 142        6550          22        6528    +  328
be          17        1489          52        1437    +  321
 bg           1           0           0           0         0
by           0           0           0           0         0
ch          44       16421          86       16335    57       17138         118       17020    +  685
cs          11         556          12         544    +   25
de         759       41855         872       40983    + 5444
dk          67        2522          41        2481    +   22
 10         634          61         573    +   29
de         827       46903        1075       45828    + 4845
dk          67        2822          43        2779    +  298
 dz           0           0           0           0         0
ee           1          23           0          23    +   23
es         141        3206          53        3153    +  259
fi         122       15442         262       15180    +  603
fr         273       18384         218       18166    +  935
 39           0          39    +   16
es         148        3776          57        3719    +  566
fi         125       16007         144       15863    +  683
fr         279       19006         233       18773    +  607
 gb           1           0           0           0         0
gr          44         586         116         470    +   22
 32         485         121         364    -  106
 hr           0           0           0           0         0
hu           3          72           1          71    +    4
ie          18         579           3         576    +    7
is           7         400          21         379    +   33
it         168        5010         178        4832    +  459
il          36        2720          51        2669    +  104
 4         101           2          99    +   28
ie          19         628           2         626    +   50
is           8         401           1         400    +   21
it         163        4950          98        4852    +   20
il          40        2829          48        2781    +  112
 lt           1           0           0           0         0
lu           5          76           0          76    +   19
 78           0          78    +    2
 lv           1           0           0           0         0
nl         243       19904         364       19540    +  667
no         277       13567         114       13453    +  181
pl          45         561          11         550    +   91
pt          44        1289          23        1266    +  191
ro           0           0           0           0         0
se         309       20415         167       20248    +  773
si           0           261       20637         376       20261    +  721
no         271       14411         167       14244    +  791
pl          47         583           6         577    +   27
pt          47        1347          22        1325    +   59
ro           0           0           0           0         0
se         315       21037         178       20859    +  611
si           1           0           0           0         0
su           1           0           0           0         0
 2          18           2          16    +   16
 tn           2           8           0           8         0
ua           0           0           0           0         0
uk         266       32626        4187       28439    + 2625
 305       38372        4417       33955    + 5516
 va           0           0           0           0         0
 ============================================================
          3046      203574        6816      196758    +14243