Dear all, Here is the hostcount for October 1995. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 93,000 (or 5.1%) to a total of over 1,900,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. The UK shows the highest increase with over 23,000 hosts more than in September. The hostcount can also 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 I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Wilfried Woeber <Wilfried.Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Christoph Graf <graf@chx400.switch.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert@dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala@eunet.fi> fr Benoit Grange <grange@sagres.inria.fr> gr Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pt Graca Carvalho <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@argo.net.kiae.su> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Duncan Rogerson <D.Rogerson@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 : Mon Sep 30 1995 This Count : Thu Oct 31 1995 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 4 1 0 1 0 am 5 74 2 72 + 10 at 1031 53197 1733 51464 + 2353 az 3 15 0 15 0 be 918 28998 791 28207 + 1322 bg 56 884 51 833 + 57 by 1 6 0 6 - 2 ch 843 79663 938 78725 + 2092 cy 29 374 11 363 + 88 cz 341 19301 318 18983 - 292 de 5191 437726 13452 424274 +22422 dk 773 47607 927 46680 + 4098 dz 2 16 0 16 0 ee 46 947 35 912 - 2158 eg 9 564 14 550 + 264 es 989 47749 844 46905 + 7368 fi 1218 143918 3220 140698 + 7378 fo 14 471 0 471 0 fr 2068 123212 3389 119823 - 3398 gb 1 32 0 32 + 1 ge 10 50 0 50 + 38 gr 353 7390 446 6944 + 204 hr 112 2859 572 2287 - 2 hu 197 14272 425 13847 + 1306 ie 111 12023 118 11905 + 1600 il 501 24141 323 23818 + 2006 is 138 7904 74 7830 + 2 it 1879 62586 4661 57925 0 li 11 41 1 40 - 7 lt 29 348 1 347 + 19 lu 81 1673 17 1656 - 13 lv 39 1142 38 1104 + 262 ma 2 202 0 202 + 202 mk 12 116 26 90 + 7 mt 3 27 3 24 + 21 nl 1453 161665 2474 159191 + 6063 no 1528 80965 3166 77799 + 3087 pl 720 22453 1564 20889 + 1951 pt 315 11254 1024 10230 + 479 ro 103 1366 30 1336 + 157 ru 393 8994 654 8340 + 1373 se 2171 135384 4415 130969 + 7276 si 156 4566 172 4394 + 499 sk 123 2952 45 2907 + 333 su 403 10245 455 9790 + 903 tn 3 77 2 75 + 6 tr 148 4905 69 4836 - 56 ua 144 2284 433 1851 + 22 uk 7394 438838 35326 403512 +23489 va 1 1 0 1 0 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 32078 2005478 82259 1923219 +92830