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RIPE Region Hostcount for January 2003
by RIPE Hostcount Maintainer 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Dear All, below is the hostcount for January 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of over 190,000 (or 1,0%) to a total of almost 18,830,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for January with approximately 70,700 hosts more than in December. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The October, 2002 data for dk and no had to be reused due to a corrupted count for this month. The same goes for the December, 2002 data being reused for mk. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by running a local count: ad Joan Marc Lauga am Hrant Dadivanyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster(a)nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene lu Alain Frieden mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Joao Pagaime ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr METU Hostcount Admin If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Jan 22 2003 This Count : Fri Feb 28 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 167 3021 235 2786 8 ae 4388 57855 5523 52332 0 al 184 244 72 172 0 am 1570 4854 1600 3254 404 at 175048 651180 275302 375878 7945 az 1440 2281 1155 1126 -13 ba 1263 8894 3079 5815 113 be 90570 481828 135496 346332 9728 bg 2019 41096 8496 32600 -386 bj 50 613 35 578 4 by 1117 6693 2625 4068 43 ch 197602 910705 364901 545804 -15098 ci 579 4276 487 3789 -608 cm 82 556 110 446 7 cv 67 275 226 49 1 cy 697 3262 671 2591 -101 cz 122662 385800 165039 220761 -5668 de 3772444 13891353 11302983 2588370 -5953 dj 923 2828 2311 517 19 dk 263513 1266458 429827 836631 0 dz 144 1085 263 822 1 ee 11591 82945 19584 63361 -3 eg 2280 5066 2001 3065 4 er 74 1159 169 990 131 es 37575 646536 54072 592464 2485 fi 35638 1280271 71687 1208584 -11478 fr 107727 1876161 483791 1392370 3689 ga 67 124 40 84 5 gb 2 8 0 8 0 ge 1313 6537 3500 3037 5 gg 2058 3365 1761 1604 -30 gh 99 403 70 333 20 gi 167 641 128 513 -1 gl 1365 3689 761 2928 14 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 49 395 149 246 -5 gq 5 5 2 3 0 gr 49528 287499 125056 162443 1614 gw 2 3 0 3 -17 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 64203 318632 121557 197075 2572 ie 23017 179165 41591 137574 1087 il 29742 288216 140635 147581 790 im 561 1821 731 1090 97 ir 833 5406 1684 3722 231 is 8635 1132098 1053117 78981 10720 it 404033 1074840 507765 567075 -105563 je 2155 3437 1712 1725 13 jo 934 6460 2332 4128 12 ke 2218 4159 1179 2980 17 kg 884 7834 1881 5953 23 kz 3328 68099 51119 16980 418 lb 1430 9223 1938 7285 86 li 6812 15027 11287 3740 -166 lr 17 17 5 12 1 lt 10218 65504 12257 53247 -1358 lu 5591 18842 5720 13122 13122 lv 8138 95556 61023 34533 -959 ma 2457 7142 4409 2733 53 mc 649 1217 739 478 -3 mk 2128 4168 1001 3167 0 mt 1576 10167 2777 7390 35 ng 361 2148 1116 1032 2 nl 655112 4793859 1645761 3148098 10895 no 71946 360658 104916 255742 0 pl 145834 966748 272129 694619 37124 pt 20213 283512 48459 235053 70342 qa 88 495 317 178 7 ro 15595 69633 26902 42731 1760 ru 157619 911190 525819 385371 4178 sa 3467 18404 3542 14862 74 se 84559 1091900 222088 869812 20638 si 11106 50977 14717 36260 469 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 57154 225617 138931 86686 688 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1078 3140 1518 1622 11 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1600 356514 328327 28187 151 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 71 20 9 11 0 tj 144 1017 711 306 4 tm 1340 3473 1449 2024 4 tn 1407 1289 946 343 2 tr 24543 264299 43912 220387 65802 ua 43795 220829 148301 72528 837 ug 744 2826 574 2252 10 uk 1749269 6628342 3691728 2936614 70684 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 151 264 150 114 1 yu 14426 30580 13360 17220 248 ============================================================== 91 8536809 41583835 22753942 18829893 192038

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RIPE 44 Meeting Report
by Nick Hyrka 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

(Apologies for any duplicate mails.) Dear Colleagues: The RIPE 44 Meeting was held recently at the Krasnapolsky Hotel from 27 - 31 January 2003 in Amsterdam. There were a total of 360 attendees comprised of the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community and government representatives. Attendees also included representatives from APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, and ICANN. Members from the U.K. had the highest number of representatives (53), followed by Germany (50), the Netherlands (37) and the U.S.A (42). Additionally, there were more representatives from Eastern European countries than ever before. Highlights of RIPE 44 included the open discussion during the Plenary on the RIPE NCC 2002 membership survey results, the first report by LACNIC after being granted official RIR status, and the first webcasting trial of the RIPE 44 sessions held in the Grand Ballroom. Version 1.0 of the RIPE NCC LIR Portal was also showcased at RIPE 44. Portal features and benefits were noted at a presentation given at the LIR and Tools Working Groups sessions. The RIPE NCC would like to thank SURFnet, Afilias, NIKHEF, KPN EuroRings, and AMSIX for the support they provided to the meeting. A summary of the RIPE 44 highlights follows: LIR === * Denesh Bhabuta (Aexiomus Limited) stepped down as co-chair of the LIR Working Group. Gert Döring (SpaceNet) and Andrea Borgato (I.Net S.p.A.) were selected as new co-chairs. * A search for a new name for the LIR Working Group was started. Rob Blokzijl (RIPE Chair) will publish a proposal for a new name. * The LIR Working Group Chairs will draft a new charter for the working group. * The sub-allocation policy document was approved. No changes were made. * A task force and mailing list was formed to investigate changes to the PI policy. * The RIPE NCC was tasked to publish a draft document on status values in inetnum objects. DATABASE ========= * IPv6 support for querying the Whois Database has been implemented. * References by name have been cleaned from the database and an organisation: object was proposed. * The RIPE NCC was tasked to: - document the mirroring protocol and its operational requirements. - add inverse lookups to all attributes that have integrity constraints. - propose and implement "reclaim:"-like functionality to the database. - add contact data to key-cert objects. IPv6 === * Enhanced IPv6 support for the new IPv6 Whois proxy has been implemented. * Test Traffic Measurement test-boxes now fully support IPv6. * Gert Döring (SpaceNet) proposed discussions to enable IPv6 access to the root servers and AAAA records for TLD in the root zone. * Bernard Tuy (RENATER) was tasked to co-ordinate an IPv6 routing guideline document. * The RIPE NCC was tasked to: - enable reverse delegation for 6bone under ip6.arpa. - investigate increasing the size of RIR allocations to rationalise routing with the IANA. ROUTING ======= * Joao Silva Damas (ISC) was announced as co-chair of the Routing Working Group. A second co-chair is being sought. * The Routing Registry Consistency Check utility implemented by the RIPE NCC was finalised. The source code is available on the RIPE NCC ftp server at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/software/RRCC-0.2.tar.gz * A list of IP address space allocated by the RIPE NCC, useful for filtering unallocated address space on routers, was published on the RIPE NCC ftp server at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/issued/ * As a part of the RIS Beacon Project the RIPE NCC was tasked to look into the behaviour of a second BGP announcement whilst the first one has not yet converged. * The RIPE NCC was tasked to analyse RIS data to approximate how much of the Internet is seen by RIS route collectors. DNS ==== * Johan Ihren (Autonomica AB) presented a proposal for experimentally signing the root-zone. The RIPE NCC was tasked to discuss the idea with the RIRs and propose technical and political recommendations. * Andrei Robachevsky (RIPE NCC) presented a report on IPv6-related DNS issues. The RIPE NCC requests feedback on freezing delegations in the ip6.int space, reverse 6to4 delegations and support of 6bone space reverse delegations under ip6.arpa. TTM & RESEARCH =============== * A new Chair is being sought for the Test Traffic Working Group. * Test Traffic Measurement test-boxes now fully support IPv6, making TTM the first measurement product on the market to do so. * CDMA is now fully supported as an alternative clock source. * Mailing list discussions have begun on upgrading TTM to the IPv6 version as well as on new business models for TTM. TECHSEC ======== * Erik Rozendaal (NLnet Labs) presented a new project at NLnet Labs called Donkey. It intends to provide a general purpose distributed public key database. The presentation can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/presentations/ripe44-tech… ANTI-SPAM ========= * More spam problems with proxies than open relays were reported. * Assured Path Messaging was noted as a possible alternative e-mail service. PRESENTATIONS ============== * SQL Slammer Worm Attack / Rene Wilhelm (RIPE NCC) - Analysis of data collected around the time of this attack, showing clear effects but also that most of the Internet backbone infrastructure survived: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/presentations/ripe44-tt-s… * Improved Secure Communication System for RIPE NCC Members / Andrei Robachevsky (RIPE NCC) - An initial proposal was presented on how to improve the current system by using a X.509-based PKI model: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/presentations/ripe44-plen… * The RIPE NCC LIR Portal v.1 / Leo Vegoda and Manuel Valente (RIPE NCC) - The new portal services features were explained in a live demonstration: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/presentations/ripe44-lir-… TUTORIALS ========= * The RIPE NCC IP Request Tutorial, given by the RIPE NCC staff, was presented. It explained address space assignment and allocation procedures in the RIPE NCC region: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/tutorials/ * The NetFlow Services tutorial, given by Benoit Claise (Cisco Systems), on reviewing the design, configuration, tuning and troubleshooting of NetFlow versions was presented during the EOF: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/presentations/ripe44-eof-… * The BGP Troubleshooting tutorial, given by Philip Smith (Cisco Systems), covering common problems ISPs face when deploying BGP within their networks was also presented during the EOF: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/presentations/ripe44-eof-… FIRST RIPE MEETING WEBCASTING ============================ The first RIPE Meeting webcast was held at RIPE 44. Recordings of sessions held in the Grand Ballroom have been archived and can be accessed at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/multicast.html HOSTMASTER CENTRE ================== The RIPE NCC Hostmaster Centre was open during RIPE 44. The centre continues to be a useful facility for the meeting attendees and will be provided at RIPE 45. RIPE 44 REFERENCE PAGE ====================== A complete list of RIPE 44 sessions, tutorials and presentations can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/archive/ripe-44/ RIPE 45 ====== RIPE 45 will be held in Barcelona, Spain from 12 to 16 May 2003. Information on RIPE 45 will be available at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/ New LIRs please note: LIRs who signed up in 2002 are entitled to two (2) free tickets to attend RIPE 45. The tickets cover registration only and do not apply to the RIPE dinner, your travel or hotel accommodations. More information on the new LIR tickets can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/new-lir.html Or contact <meeting(a)ripe.net>. END

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RIPE NCC Report: Sapphire/SQL Slammer Worm Impact
by RIPE NCC WebMaster 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Dear Colleagues, On the morning of 25 January 2003, the Sapphire worm (aka "SQL slammer") was released on the Internet. The RIPE NCC monitored the activity through its various projects that examine elements of the key infrastructure of the Internet on a 24/7 basis. Data collected during this period has now been analysed and compiled in a report by RIPE NCC staff. The complete report "Sapphire/SQL Slammer Worm Impact on Internet Performance" is available at: http://www.ripe.net/ttm/worm/ Kind Regards, Henk Uijterwaal RIPE NCC

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