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 Previous Count : Sun May 31 1992
This Count : Mon Jun 29
This Count : Mon Aug 3
1992
CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE
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al 1 0 0 0 0
at 142 6550 22 6528 + 328
be 17 1489 52 1437 + 321
139 6225 25 6200 + 1057
be 16 1127 11 1116 + 14
bg 1 0 0 0 0
by 0 0 0 0 0
ch 57 17138 118 17020 44 16421 86 16335 + 685
cs 10 634 61 573 + 29
de 827 46903 1075 45828 + 4845
dk 67 2822 43 2779 + 298
11 556 12 544 + 25
de 759 41855 872 40983 + 5444
dk 67 2522 41 2481 + 22
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
23 0 23 + 23
es 141 3206 53 3153 + 259
fi 122 15442 262 15180 + 603
fr 273 18384 218 18166 + 935
gb 1 0 0 0 0
gr 32 485 121 364 - 106
44 586 116 470 + 22
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
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
lt 1 0 0 0 0
lu 5 78 0 78 + 2
76 0 76 + 19
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
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 315 21037 178 20859 + 611
si 1 309 20415 167 20248 + 773
si 0 0 0 0 0
su 2 18 2 16 + 16
1 0 0 0 0
tn 2 8 0 8 0
ua 0 0 0 0 0
uk 305 38372 4417 33955 + 5516
266 32626 4187 28439 + 2625
va 0 0 0 0 0
yu 2 13 0 13 0
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3202 220262 7245 213017 +16246
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For the domains below no name server responded and consequently the hosts
in these domains could not be included in the count.
at: No nameservers for gis.univie.ac.at responded
be: No nameservers for tew.kuleuven.ac.be responded
ch: No nameservers for po.ciba-geigy.ch responded
ch: No nameservers for pp.ciba-geigy.ch responded
ch: No nameservers for ad.ciba-geigy.ch responded
ch: No nameservers for is.ciba-geigy.ch responded
ch: No nameservers for pi.ciba-geigy.ch responded
ch: No nameservers for ah.ciba-geigy.ch responded
cs: No nameservers for uakom.cs responded
cs: No nameservers for utc.cs responded
cs: No nameservers for mff.uniba.cs responded
de: No nameservers for cs.TU-Berlin.DE responded
de: No nameservers for usm.uni-muenchen.de responded
de: No nameservers for mathematik.uni-muenchen.de responded
de: No nameservers for geophysik.uni-muenchen.de responded
de: No nameservers for theo-phys.GWDG.DE responded
de: No nameservers for rz-pool.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de responded
de: No nameservers for tp-pool.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de responded
de: No nameservers for decnet.iao.fhg.de responded
de: No nameservers for localhost.artcom.DE responded
de: No nameservers for pflanzenbau.fal-braunschweig.de responded
de: No nameservers for pflanzenernaehrung.fal-braunschweig.de responded
de: No nameservers for marktforschung.fal-braunschweig.de responded
de: No nameservers for biosystemtechnik.fal-braunschweig.de responded
de: No nameservers for dv.fal-braunschweig.de responded
de: No nameservers for techem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de responded
de: No nameservers for swt.ruhr-uni-bochum.de responded
de: No nameservers for geophysik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de responded
de: No nameservers for ep2.ruhr-uni-bochum.de responded
de: No nameservers for leit.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for sch.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for qs.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for fa.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for rz.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for sim.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for im.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for is.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for ada.CCI.DE responded
de: No nameservers for Uni-Bamberg.DE responded
de: No nameservers for ap.pdb.sni.de responded
de: No nameservers for ind.e-technik.ind.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de responded
de: No nameservers for zgdv.uni-rostock.de responded
dk: No nameservers for nmr.chem.ou.dk responded
dk: No nameservers for teknik.icl.dk responded
fi: No nameservers for atk.tpo.fi responded
fi: No nameservers for kkt.tpo.fi responded
fr: No nameservers for iie.cnam.fr responded
fr: No nameservers for univ-compiegne.fr responded
fr: No nameservers for berger-levrault.fr responded
fr: No nameservers for ief-paris-sud.fr responded
fr: No nameservers for anl.fr responded
gr: No nameservers for ucr.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for auth.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for csd.uch.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for cc.uch.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for y-net.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for admin.forth.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for iacm.forth.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for imbb.forth.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for iesl.forth.gr responded
gr: No nameservers for duth.gr responded
ie: No nameservers for maths.may.ie responded
it: No nameservers for csr.pmn.it responded
it: No nameservers for iss.infn.it responded
it: No nameservers for ist.unige.it responded
it: No nameservers for die.unige.it responded
it: No nameservers for dibe.unige.it.unige.it responded
it: No nameservers for die.unige.it.unige.it responded
it: No nameservers for cisi.unige.it.unige.it responded
it: No nameservers for di.unito.it responded
it: No nameservers for x400.IT responded
it: No nameservers for area.trieste.IT responded
it: No nameservers for icgeb.trieste.IT responded
it: No nameservers for univ.trieste.IT responded
it: No nameservers for tbs.trieste.IT responded
it: No nameservers for elettra.trieste.IT responded
it: No nameservers for icc.trieste.IT responded
nl: No nameservers for stc.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for cdij.rhij.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for hto.rhij.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for heo.rhij.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for t.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for bcv.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for wd.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for wg.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for xe.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for wgs.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for yc.estec.esa.nl responded
nl: No nameservers for icin.nl responded
no: No nameservers for bodolh.no responded
no: No nameservers for krssh.no responded
no: No nameservers for sarpih.no responded
no: No nameservers for bergenbsh.no responded
no: No nameservers for oslodsh.no responded
no: No nameservers for epac.no responded
no: No nameservers for hedmarksh.no responded
pl: No nameservers for if.pw.edu.pl responded
pl: No nameservers for coi.pw.edu.pl responded
pl: No nameservers for ii.pw.edu.pl responded
pl: No nameservers for it.pw.edu.pl responded
pl: No nameservers for il.pw.edu.pl responded
pt: No nameservers for ci.uminho.pt responded
pt: No nameservers for di.uminho.pt responded
pt: No nameservers for di-ia.uminho.pt responded
se: No nameservers for interop.snus.se responded
se: No nameservers for uppsala.kda.se responded
se: No nameservers for eritel.tvt.se responded
uk: No nameservers for cs.keele.ac.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for srd.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for mround.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for lacanja.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for lssec.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for pasture.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for cartoon.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for nmd-cmc.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for asms.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for btcase.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for bt-sys.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for hfnet.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for summer.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for perf.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for aom.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for zoo.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for pmanwser.bt.co.uk responded
uk: No nameservers for usup.uk22.bull.co.uk responded ============================================================
3046 203574 6816 196758 +14243