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Hostcount for September 1996
by Mirjam Kuehne 04 Oct '96

04 Oct '96

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for September 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of over 170,000 (or 5.7%) to a total of almost 3,300,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. Over the last quarter the number of hosts in Europe increased by +12.5%. The UK shows the highest increase for September with more than 45,000(!) hosts more than in August. DE still has the highest total amount of hosts registered. Last month I reported about a few zones that showed a significant decrease of hosts. At least for AT we found a reason: lack of disc space to hold the complete output file. The count was repeated beginning of September. The corrected data for AT can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/at.{output,error}.9608.gz The complete hostcount data can be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/ The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/ I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler(a)cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons(a)CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster(a)nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis(a)forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg(a)sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek(a)nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn(a)dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley(a)nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Aug 29 1996 This Count : Mon Sep 30 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 - 1 am 8 209 8 201 + 64 at 3027 89579 9927 79652 + 5715 az 4 17 0 17 0 be 2845 48760 2224 46536 + 1424 bg 115 2870 153 2717 + 818 by 17 147 3 144 + 17 ch 4822 119279 5476 113803 + 4797 cy 109 915 15 900 - 72 cz 1205 37691 1271 36420 + 1676 de 19680 690881 39150 651731 +23931 dk 3005 97031 5458 91573 + 7217 dz 2 21 0 21 + 3 ee 388 7565 182 7383 + 547 eg 73 1690 35 1655 + 515 es 2764 95151 1646 93505 + 4669 fi 2876 327886 6175 321711 +23632 fo 23 89 1 88 + 2 fr 4760 216884 7468 209416 + 5804 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 13 164 3 161 + 28 gr 432 10610 556 10054 - 1631 hr 364 4339 696 3643 + 261 hu 702 27538 696 26842 + 829 ie 1114 24184 375 23809 + 1525 il 1560 47549 3186 44363 - 380 is 249 10544 97 10447 - 188 it 6162 142851 11523 131328 + 7402 li 70 220 54 166 + 28 lt 132 1503 69 1434 + 43 lu 193 2980 140 2840 + 42 lv 127 5391 196 5195 + 2094 ma 24 473 65 408 + 52 md 10 20 2 18 + 1 mk 20 227 16 211 + 27 mt 48 377 62 315 + 42 nl 7885 235681 8230 227451 + 6341 no 4316 137936 5083 132853 + 6172 pl 1668 46391 2226 44165 + 5328 pt 898 20118 791 19327 + 3186 ro 328 4538 169 4369 + 368 ru 1539 36037 2670 33367 + 2837 se 8060 222469 12386 210083 +13859 si 501 12450 1026 11424 + 712 sk 309 6773 301 6472 + 629 sm 10 611 277 334 + 25 su 549 16838 741 16097 + 1016 tn 5 51 7 44 + 1 tr 429 10613 590 10023 - 1384 ua 246 6157 1099 5058 - 53 uk 28478 736112 87896 648216 +45790 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 139 2031 45 1986 + 225 ============================================================ 112312 3510565 220465 3290100 +175985

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New Document available: ripe-144
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 04 Oct '96

04 Oct '96

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-144 Title: RIPE NCC Activities & Expenditure 1997 Author: D. Karrenberg, M. Kuehne, C. Orange, P. Ridley Date: 3 October 1996 Format: PS=378607 TXT=72811 bytes Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: ripe-133 Updated by: See also: ripe-145 Short content description ------------------------- This document describes the RIPE NCC Activities and Expenditure for 1997 as approved by the Contributors Committee. The only change from the draft document is the deletion of activity N.4 "Industry Representation". MIME Mail Reader ---------------- The following message body parts contain the data which will enable a MIME compliant Mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the RIPE document by FTP or mail server. FTP Access ---------- All RIPE documents and Internet RFC`s are available via anonymous FTP from host ftp.ripe.net. Type "ftp ftp.ripe.net". Login with username "anonymous" supplying your email address as the password. After logging in, type "cd ripe/docs/" followed by the command "get filename". The relevant filenames for this document are: ripe-144.txt for the ASCII version ripe-144.ps for the PostScript version Electronic Mail Retrieval of Documents -------------------------------------- Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to: mail-server(a)ripe.net with "send HELP" in the body text. RIPE NCC Interactive Information Server --------------------------------------- Type "telnet info.ripe.net". This is a menu driven service allows the document store to be browsed. After reading documents you are prompted as to whether you would like to receive an email copy of the document you have just read. If you would, you simply enter your email address and the document will be mailed to you. BEGIN SEND ripe/docs/ripe-144.txt

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RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 1997 (ripe-146)
by RIPE NCC Document Annoucement Service 04 Oct '96

04 Oct '96

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A revised/new document is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-146 Title: RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 1997 Author: D. Karrenberg, C. Orange, P. Ridley Date: 3 Oct 1996 Format: PS=120785 TXT=23182 bytes Obsoletes: Obsoleted by: Updates: ripe-143 Updated by: See also: ripe-145 Short content description ------------------------- This document describes the 1997 RIPE NCC charging scheme including its implementation schedule. Contributing local IRs are kindly requested to take note. MIME Mail Reader ---------------- The following message body parts contain the data which will enable a MIME compliant Mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the RIPE document by FTP or mail server. FTP Access ---------- All RIPE documents and Internet RFC`s are available via anonymous FTP from host ftp.ripe.net. Type "ftp ftp.ripe.net". Login with username "anonymous" supplying your email address as the password. After logging in, type "cd ripe/docs/" followed by the command "get filename". The relevant filenames for this document are: ripe-146.txt for the ASCII version ripe-146.ps for the PostScript version Electronic Mail Retrieval of Documents -------------------------------------- Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to: mail-server(a)ripe.net with "send HELP" in the body text. RIPE NCC Interactive Information Server --------------------------------------- Type "telnet info.ripe.net". This is a menu driven service allows the document store to be browsed. After reading documents you are prompted as to whether you would like to receive an email copy of the document you have just read. If you would, you simply enter your email address and the document will be mailed to you. BEGIN SEND ripe/docs/ripe-146.txt

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Re: Top-50 Report
by Tony Barber 30 Sep '96

30 Sep '96

Tony Bates wrote: > > >This is a list of the "Top 50" players who if CIDRizing at the AS level >could make a significant gain in the reduction of the size of Internet >routing tables. This may be an over-estimation but it is hoped that >this can act as an incentive for the "Top 50" and others to look at >their CIDR capability. This is a revival of report that used to be >posted in the early days of CIDR deployment (we even had a cidrd list >and working group then). > >This looks purely at the classful routes in the system and shows what gain if >cidrizing at the AS-level could be made by forming an aggregate. > > --Tony > >P.S. Same caveat about AS name mappings not working quite right yet. >P.P.S. Unless there are loud objections I plan to automate this again soon. > The above is an excellent idea. Perhaps if you could mail the output to nanog and ripe-list the peer pressure would help and in some cases inform LIRS/ISPs what they may unknowingly be doing wrong. RIPE did this earlier inthe year for the European registries and it worked. Is there an APNIC equivelant ? It would also be a good idea IMHO if the Global registries (APNIC RIPE INTERNIC)had email lists, alongthe lines of the ones RIPE runs, which it encouraged new 'customers' to join. This may be the nearest we get to a global isp email list. Regards Tony

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Re: Top-50 Report
by Paul Ferguson 26 Sep '96

26 Sep '96

At 11:48 AM 9/26/96 +0100, Tony Barber wrote: >The above is an excellent idea. Perhaps if you could mail the output to >nanog and ripe-list the peer pressure would help and in some cases inform >LIRS/ISPs what they may unknowingly be doing wrong. >RIPE did this earlier inthe year for the European registries and it worked. > >Is there an APNIC equivelant ? > Yes -- AP Ops <apops(a)apnic.net> - paul

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The Limerick WG Strikes Back
by Schweikhardt＠RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE 26 Sep '96

26 Sep '96

Hello *, many of you will already have seen the recent ACTIVITY REPORT of the Limerick WG. Thank you very much, Roderick, for compiling all that information. While idling on the train home, I used the spare time to compose a few more limericks which I think might be good for a laugh (or two). limerick: LIM-SYNFLOOD descr: On syn flooding attacks text: A Bad Guy's (TM) host in Kent text: Bazillions of SYN packets sent text: Until buffers starved text: And syslogds barfed. text: We hope this guy soon will repent. author: JS268-RIPE source: RIPE limerick: LIM-WG-CANCELLED descr: Limerick WG report cancellation text: The Limerick group worked all night text: To get all those limericks right. text: But their presentation text: Was dropped -- what frustration! text: Hey folks, wasn't THAT impolite? author: JS268-RIPE source: RIPE All standard smileys apply. No offense meant. [I'm wondering why I'm in the networking business. In my next life I'll probably be a poet.] Jens Schweikhardt -- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)

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Limerick WG report
by Roderik Muit 25 Sep '96

25 Sep '96

Unfortunately, the RIPE chair decided that there was too little time left for a presentation of the Limerick Working Group. So this time it will have to be done on the RIPE mailinglist. ACTIVITY REPORT After the deployment of the limerick object in the RIPE Database, which was in effect the creation of the first LR (Limerick Registry) at RIPE, there are no proposals for new activities to be started up in the Limerick area. There are however some issues that have come up regarding the functioning of the LR: - The LR is currently still not in good shape because old-style limerick submissions (at the moment stored at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/limericks) are not incorporated in the LR. Converting the old style submissions to limerick templates in the RIPE Database is outside the direct scope of the RIPE NCC activity plan, and also there have been no volunteer efforts or separate funding for this, so incorporating the old data in the LR is done on a very low priority basis. New submissions will however be stored in the LR. - I have not heard any suggestion so far from the secret Limerick Working Group on a uniform naming scheme of the limericks. (This might be the effect of nobody knowing who are actually the members of this working group.) Currently, limerick submissions that are approved by the Limerick Working Group are stored in the LR with the following name: LIM-xx-number, where xx is either the number of the RIPE meeting or the nic-handle of the author. This is however not a standard, so it does not provide for a real good way to search for limericks in the LR. (I would like to point you to the following options that are the best alternative so far when trying to find a certain limerick: - inverse lookup; try 'whois -h whois.ripe.net -i author <nic-hdl>' for limericks from a certain author, or 'whois -h whois.ripe.net -i admin-c LIM1-RIPE' for all limericks approved by the Limerick Working Group. - a copy of the full LR is stored at: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ripe.db.li.gz) - All limericks approved by the Limerick Working Group are ofcourse protected by a maintainer object to protect people from tampering with them. However, because of the lack of any hierarchy in the limerick space, hierarchical authorisation cannot currently be deployed. There were vague suggestions of creating a 'root limerick object' which would provide for hierarchical authorisation, but no definitive proposals from the Limerick Working Group have been seen yet. This has the effect that anybody can create limerick objects without anybody being notified. A (manual) investigation of the current state of the LR shows that this is currently not a problem, although at a later stage this manual checking does not scale well. Only one limerick has been found that seems to have been inserted without the Limerick Working Group knowing: limerick: LIM-NEWOBJECT descr: Wait until Wilfried hears about this! text: An object appears from the blue text: Defined by goodness knows who text: There's no doubt a feeling text: Of insider dealing text: If the database working group knew. admin-c: MN131 author: MN131 remarks: No comment notify: mnorris(a)hea.ie changed: mnorris(a)hea.ie 960513 source: RIPE NEW SUBMISSIONS A clear pattern can be seen in the number of submissions of limericks. It looks somewhat like this: Number of limericks 5 | # 4 | # # # # 3 | # # # # 2 | # # # # 1 | # # # # # # 0 |######################################## +---------------------------------------- Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep -> time 1995 1996 Most RIPE members will see a clear parallel with the RIPE meetings. The irregularities in this pattern were all caused by a sudden raise of activity emerging inside British Telecom. As usual, the number of submissions, via various channels, reached its peak at a tuesday night. It seems we are getting more activity, and quality is also quite high, which breaks with the trend in 1995 where one person took credit for almost all submissions. New submissions follow below. (JS268-RIPE == Jens Schweikhardt, by the way.) limerick: LIM-NT13-1 descr: RIPE24 dinner text: At a RIPE meeting, held in Berlin, text: The meal was unusual, the din text: Of the two serenaders text: Whose repertoire made us text: All smile and want to join in admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: NT13 mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960529 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-NT13-2 text: A document RIPE-181 text: Tells how everything ought to be done text: There are objects galore text: Heaven knows what they're for text: 'Cos they're all out of date, every one. admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: NT13 mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960529 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-NT13-3 text: The document RIPE-104 text: Goes on longer than ever before text: If you want an address text: And your network's a mess text: Then Daniel will get very sore admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: NT13 remarks: Great limerick, but the draft document RIPE-104++ remarks: is now called RIPE-140... mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960529 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-NT13-4 text: BGP is a protocol smart text: On Ciscos its really an art text: If you screw up your MED text: And your router goes dead text: Then you're better off with a restart admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: NT13 mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960529 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-NT13-5 descr: On the subject of joining the limericks-wg text: The limericks writers at RIPE text: Are nervous and shun any hype text: You can't get on their list text: And find out what you've missed text: 'Cos none of them knows what to type admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: NT13 remarks: The limericks-wg members have no comment. Their identity remarks: remains a big mistery... mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960604 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-NT13-6 text: If your secret just musn't get out text: And it's email you're worried about text: There's a method you see text: You can use PGP text: And send it without any doubt admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: NT13 mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960716 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-RIPE25-1 text: If we did not write a limerick text: Mike Norris might feel a little sick text: He left without a trace text: No one can take his place text: Nontheless we tried a rhyme quick admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: LIM1-RIPE remarks: Author is actually a group: remarks: Brian Renaud, Ambrose Magee, Joachim Schmitz, Juergen Rauschenbach remarks: Produced at RIPE dinner ofcourse mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960925 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-RIPE25-2 descr: Referring to an announcement on ripe-list shortly before RIPE25 text: Peter has a SONET line text: He thinks this is mighty fine text: He says the cell text: must go to hell text: I wish his bathroom was mine admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: LIM1-RIPE remarks: Author is actually a group: remarks: Brian Renaud, Ambrose Magee, Joachim Schmitz, Juergen Rauschenbach remarks: Produced at RIPE dinner ofcourse mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960925 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-RIPE25-3 descr: Referring to the Database Workshop at RIPE25 text: Our Ignorance was rendered moot text: by slides drawn amazingly cute text: To demonstrate series text: of database queries text: Ms. Orange used all sorts of fruit admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: JS268-RIPE mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960925 source: RIPE limerick: LIM-RIPE25-4 text: There once was a group with potential text: It's growth has been deemed exponential text: The database working text: and no more bugs lurking text: It's problems are purely financial admin-c: LIM1-RIPE author: JS268-RIPE mnt-by: LIM-MNT changed: limerick-wg(a)ripe.net 960925 source: RIPE

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