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hostcount for February 1995


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
============================================================
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
============================================================
         16448     1245100       47146     1197911    +91807



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