[ris-int] FYI: RISwhois usage statistics

RISwhois was announced early december 2003 and presented 
in the january 2004 RIPE47 meeting. After that we didn't
do any marketing (other than provide pointers on ris webpages)

I just had a rough look at the access statistics (as logged to
/var/log/local.log and archived in /var/log/ARCHIVE/local.log*.gz)
and found it nice to see there's continued intereset for RISwhois
from external users.

Excluding any of the RIPE NCC and RIPE meeting addresses (193.0.[0-9].*)
RISwhois had 2,325,338 connections[*] from 815 distinct hosts.

Top 10 users:

	IP			#connections  
	213.19.146.13   	932354
	145.89.193.200   	478159
	128.223.6.40   		363763
	207.172.7.46   		345502
	213.186.35.102   	 58583
	212.126.218.123   	 45000
	202.12.29.252   	 37448
	210.25.133.26   	 21005
	146.115.9.21   	 	 15348
	212.126.218.122   	 14242


halfweg.ripe.net made 16150 connections, which I take should all
be attributed to the CGI web interface on www.ris.ripe.net

So although started from a perspective of improving TTM's IP<>AS
mapping, it seems we did add something useful/interesting to
the RIS service portfolio.

-- Rene

[*] like whois.ripe.net, riswhoisd can keep a connection open
    on user request, thus #connections is not necessarily equal
    to #queries answered.