Dear all, Here is the hostcount for April 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 116,000 (or 4.7%) to a total of almost 2,600,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. FI shows the highest increase for April with more than 23,000 hosts than in March. However, we must take into account that Finland showed a decrease of 7233 hosts in March indicating a possible error due to connectivity. Last month we saw a decrease of 940 hosts in the IE zone due to a collapse of one of the irish service providers. The figures have now stabilized because new connections have been taken up with alternative providers. 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 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 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@argo.net.kiae.su> 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 : Sun Mar 31 1996 This Count : Tue Apr 30 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 76 0 76 + 17 am 9 226 9 217 + 119 at 1731 69820 4265 65555 + 2981 az 3 16 0 16 0 be 1808 38735 1315 37420 + 1514 bg 93 1816 74 1742 + 218 by 10 60 2 58 + 4 ch 2410 98768 3040 95728 + 4137 cy 71 609 11 598 + 44 cz 632 27907 523 27384 + 1305 de 9906 545126 20221 524905 + 8563 dk 1120 56189 2771 53418 - 6433 dz 2 16 0 16 0 ee 258 5657 164 5493 + 599 eg 25 712 10 702 + 6 es 1614 70467 1005 69462 + 4483 fi 1923 258278 3740 254538 +23836 fo 5 21 0 21 + 1 fr 3292 175709 4830 170879 +16849 gb 1 42 0 42 + 2 ge 9 75 0 75 + 9 gr 463 11363 721 10642 + 3988 hr 251 3487 688 2799 - 216 hu 509 22593 367 22226 + 4777 ie 353 14138 217 13921 + 715 il 964 38852 2690 36162 + 1536 is 161 10081 92 9989 + 94 it 3868 102369 8942 93427 + 1122 li 26 91 10 81 + 17 lt 66 1025 6 1019 + 144 lu 137 2457 79 2378 + 1538 lv 85 3701 67 3634 + 507 ma 9 367 50 317 - 19 md 9 6 0 6 + 4 mk 13 148 20 128 + 5 mt 24 403 61 342 + 95 nl 3282 203445 4156 199289 +13664 no 2800 109800 3778 106022 + 1179 pl 998 33368 1479 31889 + 1530 pt 198 12398 162 12236 - 1010 ro 253 2858 85 2773 + 322 ru 697 21062 1412 19650 + 3944 se 4816 179335 7429 171906 +14176 si 315 8979 704 8275 + 733 sk 166 4525 106 4419 + 180 sm 6 326 153 173 + 31 su 485 14220 663 13557 + 939 tn 3 50 4 46 - 14 tr 140 3174 49 3125 - 5102 ua 186 4361 883 3478 + 241 uk 15705 567904 50356 517548 +12598 va 1 3 0 3 0 yu 6 134 2 132 + 132 ============================================================ 61922 2727348 127411 2599937 +116104