Please find below the RIPE Domain Name System hostcount for November 1992.
Also included again are the totals found for every hostcount done since the
start of all this.

- Hungary (HU) went down a little due to connectivity problems

- Portugal (PT) is a bit more serious, since not one machine inside Portugal
could be contacted. It seems that they have lost all connectivity to the
outside world.

- again the counts for Germany (DE) and United-Kingdom (UK) have been done
inside the country, and the results collected at the NCC.

Overall a nice increase of around 17,000 to just under 272,000. It seems that
300,000 can be reached near the next RIPE meeting in January in Prague.

Comparing this with the global zone survey as done at SRI by Mark Lottor, we
can conclude that almost 25% of all hosts in the DNS are in Europe (or at
least 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 European part of the DNS).




                  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 : Sat Oct 31 1992
 Mon Jun 29
 This Count     : Mon Nov 30 1992

 Aug 3

 CY         SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL    CHANGE
============================================================
al           1           0           0           0         0
at         190        8253          25        8228    +  652
be          34        1966          69        1897    +  289
 142        6550          22        6528    +  328
be          17        1489          52        1437    +  321
 bg           1           0           0           0         0
by           0           0           0           0         0
ch         103       21887         172       21715    +  896
cs          19         987          75         912    +   82
de         987       60182        1398       58784    + 3805
dk          84        4943          47        4896    +  264
dz           0           0           0           0         0
ee           7          64           0          64    +    4
es         174        5558          78        5480    +  451
fi         150       19517         488       19029    +  651
fr         323       24193         500       23693    + 2659
gb           1           4           0           4    +    2
gr          30         506          15         491    +  130
hr           0           0           0           0         0
hu          10         100           0         100    -   71
ie          26         994          12         982    +   73
is          13         717           7         710    +   37
it         212        6960          93        6867    +  944
il          41        3473          56        3417    +   90
lt           1           0           0           0         0
lu           6         108           0         108    +   18
lv           1           7           0           7    +    7
nl         291       23973         415       23558    + 1194
no         354       17499         259       17240    +  729
pl          49        1044          33        1011    +  217
pt           1           0           0           0    - 1623
ro           0           0           0           0         0
se         361       24848         228       24620    + 1096
si           1           1           0           1    +    1
su         125          50           0          50    +    3
tn           2          12           0          12    +    3
 57       17138         118       17020    +  685
cs          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          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          32         485         121         364    -  106
hr           0           0           0           0         0
hu           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          78           0          78    +    2
lv           1           0           0           0         0
nl         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           2          18           2          16    +   16
tn           2           8           0           8         0
 ua           0           0           0           0         0
uk         392       54752        6844       47908    + 4607
 305       38372        4417       33955    + 5516
 va           0           0           0           0         0
yu           2          11           0          11         0
============================================================
          3992      282609       10814      271795    +17210