Dear all, Here is the hostcount for August 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 86,000 (or 2.9%) to a total of over 3,110,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. DE shows the highest increase for August with more than 24,000 hosts more than in July. In some countries we see quite a significant decrease this month, also in countries were the hostcount is done remotely. We couldn't find any explanation for this besides general connectivity problems and servers not responding. 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 The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler@cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster@nic.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 Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg@sztaki.hu> 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> pl Irek Neska <irek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@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 : Wed Jul 31 1996 This Count : Sat Aug 31 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 80 0 80 + 3 am 11 143 6 137 + 48 at 2643 82794 8857 73937 - 2562 az 4 17 0 17 + 1 be 2604 47761 2649 45112 + 754 bg 88 1995 96 1899 - 293 by 16 130 3 127 + 8 ch 4410 114207 5201 109006 + 3329 cy 97 984 12 972 + 10 cz 1053 35527 783 34744 + 1385 de 17479 663266 35466 627800 +24010 dk 2472 88356 4000 84356 + 4174 dz 2 18 0 18 0 ee 367 7018 182 6836 + 295 eg 67 1166 26 1140 + 276 es 2627 90427 1591 88836 + 3138 fi 2560 303212 5133 298079 - 3258 fo 22 87 1 86 + 5 fr 4398 210014 6402 203612 + 9481 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 10 134 1 133 + 5 gr 482 10694 420 10274 - 1622 hr 334 4095 713 3382 + 24 hu 688 26628 615 26013 + 1435 ie 1044 22667 383 22284 + 801 il 1477 46979 2236 44743 + 4091 is 234 10724 89 10635 - 237 it 5651 135197 11271 123926 + 3974 li 50 180 42 138 + 3 lt 117 1465 74 1391 + 35 lu 174 2884 86 2798 - 170 lv 111 3235 134 3101 - 1681 ma 13 366 10 356 + 8 md 10 18 1 17 - 19 mk 12 201 17 184 + 17 mt 19 293 20 273 - 120 nl 7060 226418 5308 221110 + 4957 no 3957 131352 4671 126681 + 5206 pl 1522 40804 1967 38837 - 2472 pt 645 16598 457 16141 + 365 ro 303 4171 170 4001 + 356 ru 1337 32992 2462 30530 + 2688 se 7093 205467 9243 196224 + 5740 si 458 11637 925 10712 + 334 sk 266 6115 272 5843 - 6 sm 9 561 252 309 + 18 su 519 15786 705 15081 + 521 tn 5 50 7 43 0 tr 337 9148 216 8932 - 2153 ua 254 6384 1273 5111 + 878 uk 25558 671481 69055 602426 +22670 va 2 5 0 5 + 2 yu 102 1798 37 1761 + 144 ============================================================ 100780 3293769 183540 3110229 +86596