Pavel Vachek wrote:
This data has been extremely useful for us as it helped us find organisations trying to misuse the CESNET IP space. Our access to the raw hostcount data stopped in January 2005 as well.
while this is tempting and depending on who actually does the necessary "grep" might be covered by the AUP, I'd like to state that the issue is two-edged. First, it's never complete, so you only find those organisations who both happen to use the wrong IP addresses and are within your TLD, while nothing prevents them from using COM, BIZ or XXX {filter food} names as well. Second, and more important, this kind of policing, although it has been done for years, might reduce the willingness of affected and other parties to allow AXFR access. Experience shows that many organisations have only and explicitly granted AXFR access to support the hostcount statistics data collection (and some DNS quality postprocessing). So, declaring "raw data access" a feature of the hostcount is detrimental to its success. It was a side effect that's gone. -Peter PS: Just to be clear: the DE hostcount raw data must not be published.