hostcount for February 1995
- To: Hostcount Recipients:@ripe.net ;
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 14:35:40 +0100
Dear all,
Here is the hostcount for February 1995.
The hosts in the following domains are now counted locally:
at be cy cz de fr gr ie il it pt sk uk
I made two hostcounts for February: one was calculated in the
usual way and the other was calculated incorporating the local counts
for the domains above. I made some comparisons between the two sets of
data and have published only the latter.
When the hosts are counted centrally a significant number of zones are
missed and not included in the total numbers.
It seems clear therefor that the results are more reliable if they are
produced locally for each domain.
A few countries have made big increases again, to a total
increase since last month of over 91,000 (or 8.3%) to almost 1,200,000
machines in the DNS in Europe.
There is one thing to note about the de domain:
It shows an enormous increase since last month.
The person responsible for the hostcount in Germany did some research on
that and found a zone with the following kind of A RR's:
host.x.y.z.1. a x.y.z.1
host.x.y.z.2. a x.y.z.2
host.x.y.z.3. a x.y.z.3
host.x.y.z.4. a x.y.z.4
host.x.y.z.5. a x.y.z.5
host.x.y.z.6. a x.y.z.6
host.x.y.z.7. a x.y.z.7
host.x.y.z.8. a x.y.z.8
[...]
65,000 A RR's.
In the actual hostcount are only 25,000 A RR's included because the
host command contains a limit for hosts per zone:
*** maximum of 25000 hostnames reached
This implies that you can add another 40,000 hosts to the figures for the
de domain.
This incident shows what the hostcount actually represents:
Technically, it is a count of A records in all zones
that could be retrieved. Heuristically, it gives an approximate
overview of the current machine population.
This should remind us to be careful with the objectivity of the hostcount
and the purposes we use it for.
The hostcount can also be found under ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount
If you have any comments or questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Mirjam
RIPE NCC
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RIPE DNS Hostcount
Previous Count : Tue Jan 31 1995
This Count : Tue Feb 28 1995
CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE
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al 3 0 0 0 0
at 578 32052 319 31733 + 2805
az 3 16 0 0 - 16
be 330 19885 334 19551 + 486
bg 20 196 25 171 + 5
by 1 2 0 2 0
ch 380 54785 380 54405 + 2169
cy 4 8 3 5 - 82
cz 211 12750 185 12565 + 891
de 2839 251388 6508 244880 +35612
dk 323 28332 344 27988 + 640
dz 2 10 0 10 0
ee 63 1302 10 1292 - 124
eg 6 170 2 168 0
es 568 31905 533 31372 + 4332
fi 655 78914 1507 77407 + 5768
fo 13 438 0 438 + 436
fr 1281 99979 1300 98679 + 4567
gb 1 27 0 27 0
ge 1 0 0 0 0
gr 170 4015 221 3794 - 236
hr 73 1466 31 1435 - 21
hu 106 9003 52 8951 + 290
ie 67 6171 82 6089 - 238
il 255 14437 366 14071 + 429
is 87 5027 41 4986 + 229
it 1019 37432 1256 36176 + 3842
li 4 30 3 0 - 27
lt 17 166 2 164 + 9
lu 45 712 5 707 + 92
lv 20 642 6 636 + 18
ma 0 0 0 0 0
mk 1 0 0 0 0
mt 1 0 0 0 0
nl 739 93771 2482 91289 + 2010
no 891 54848 1626 53222 + 2960
pl 397 10952 854 10098 - 1255
pt 138 6380 70 6310 + 789
ro 24 536 37 499 + 1
ru 248 2713 271 2442 + 342
se 1077 89181 2691 86490 + 6832
si 115 2164 76 2088 + 255
sk 86 1712 32 1680 + 117
su 271 5784 297 5487 + 355
tn 3 64 7 57 0
tr 50 958 11 947 - 1174
ua 72 707 95 612 + 10
uk 3187 284070 25082 258988 +18689
va 0 0 0 0 0
yu 3 0 0 0 0
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16448 1245100 47146 1197911 +91807
