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 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 Below the DNS hostcount for September 1992.

Remarks:

- CS has a low count this month due to network reachability problems. I have
tried two times more to count CS, but with the same result.

- IT also has this problem, a few hundred hosts less due to network
reachability problems.

- PT has the same problem, although on a smaller scale. Also tried two
times more, with the same result.

- DE really takes off now, they are the first to reach 50,000+.

- Overall another 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 registered in the European part of the DNS).




                  just over 10,000 to reach 230,000 plus.

- This count was done a bit earlier in the month than usual, but I needed the
output for our 2nd Quarterly Report, and for the coming RIPE meeting ;-)

- Next month we will start doing some tests with distributed counting. Some
people have agreed to do the count for their own country within the country,
and make the results available to me. This should decrease the influence of
network and link outages, and increase the count even further.

- All output can again be found on ftp.ripe.net:/ripe/hostcount. Check the
README for details. Previous counts can be found in subdirectory History.

- The total history has been appended again. You will find it  below the
hostcount.

Enjoy,

-Marten

                  RIPE DNS Hostcount

Previous Count : Sat Oct Mon Aug 31 1992
This Count     : Mon Nov 30 Sat Sep 26 1992

CY         SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL    CHANGE
============================================================
al           1           0           0           0         0
at         190        8253          25        8228    +  652
be          34        1966          69        1897    +  289
 165        7055          45        7010    +  205
be          21        1574          57        1517    +   60
 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
 94       19586         180       19406    + 1624
cs           3          11           0          11    -  613
de         881       53382        1104       52278    + 4662
dk          71        4404          39        4365    + 1291
 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
 57           0          57    +   20
es         156        4280          82        4198    +  364
fi         134       17387         150       17237    +  369
fr         292       19740         167       19573    +  410
gb           1           2           0           2    +    1
gr          45         671         137         534    +   57
 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
 4         121           2         119    +   86
ie          23         843           4         839    +  176
is          10         556           6         550    +  104
it         169        4976         194        4782    -  192
il          41        3238         139        3099    +  253
 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
 5          79           1          78         0
lv           1           0           0           0         0
nl         233       21611         373       21238    +   40
no         311       15683         213       15470    +  601
pl          54         678           9         669    +    4
pt          47        1381          22        1359    -   26
 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
 341       22996         194       22802    + 1065
si           1           0           0           0         0
su         127          29           1          28    +    2
tn           2           9           0           9         0
 ua           0           0           0           0         0
uk         392       54752        6844       47908    + 4607
 310       38353        3072       35281    +   10
 va           0           0           0           0         0
yu           2          11           0          11         0
============================================================
          3992      282609       10814      271795    +17210 -    2
============================================================
          3554      238713        6191      232522    +10571

History

Oct 1990	 31724
Nov 1990	 33665
Dec 1990	 29230
Jan 1991	 43832
Feb 1991	    -
Mar 1991	 44506
Apr 1991	 46948
May 1991	     -
Jun 1991	 63267
Jul 1991	     -
Aug 1991	 73069
Sep 1991	 92834
Oct 1991	104824
Nov 1991	129652
Dec 1991	     -
Jan 1992	     -
Feb 1992	161434
Mar 1992	167939
Apr 1992	170050
May 1992	182528
Jun 1992	196758
Jul 1992	213017
Aug 1992	221951
Sep 1992	232522