Dear all, Here is the hostcount for October 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 300,000 (or 5.9%) to a total of almost 5,400,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. DE shows the highest increase for October with more than 70,000 hosts more than in September. The famous B zone that was mentioned earlier is part of it again. 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 All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are intersted in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe 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 DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.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 Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@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> Robert Stone <robert@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 : Tue Sep 30 1997 This Count : Fri Oct 31 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 10 119 5 114 0 am 48 399 63 336 - 35 at 11276 115422 22068 93354 - 1091 az 10 149 3 146 - 3 ba 4 85 0 85 + 25 be 6971 106994 8150 98844 + 4109 bg 336 6967 362 6605 + 404 by 45 643 58 585 + 67 ch 19192 187945 19020 168925 + 1603 cy 361 3204 76 3128 + 98 cz 5508 59529 2440 57089 + 2387 de 71548 1158256 152993 1005263 +70810 dk 31863 174406 18698 155708 + 9789 dz 2 38 1 37 0 ee 1092 14326 714 13612 + 411 eg 332 2769 79 2690 + 366 es 6807 192476 5584 186892 + 8237 fi 6320 450597 10267 440330 +11035 fo 70 270 9 261 + 21 fr 12394 348401 22094 326307 - 2160 gb 2 40 0 40 + 40 ge 24 389 15 374 - 5 gr 1825 27896 1438 26458 + 1899 hr 960 8246 1204 7042 - 89 hu 2610 63388 4913 58475 +14532 ie 3569 39105 2378 36727 + 1478 il 3890 74912 6822 68090 - 5312 is 737 16870 486 16384 + 954 it 20653 319617 44156 275461 +45504 li 251 965 226 739 + 30 lt 476 3573 204 3369 + 126 lu 814 5634 907 4727 + 240 lv 421 7238 924 6314 + 188 ma 82 1168 124 1044 + 121 md 27 277 39 238 + 32 mk 38 467 26 441 + 18 mt 117 962 118 844 - 18 nl 22605 403310 29888 373422 + 8185 no 12403 298211 11559 286652 +64890 pl 5816 82897 7572 75325 - 5108 pt 4470 42852 2853 39999 + 1879 ro 835 13462 817 12645 + 771 ru 6706 103839 10687 93152 + 9139 se 21703 347666 16888 330778 + 2490 si 1588 20932 2463 18469 + 257 sk 2308 16010 2851 13159 + 1693 sm 23 221 9 212 - 535 su 902 42352 1207 41145 + 2296 tn 5 69 20 49 + 1 tr 3761 35728 3677 32051 + 9575 ua 712 18215 4328 13887 + 2692 uk 69877 1133773 154411 979362 +35165 va 2 10 0 10 0 yu 737 4201 183 4018 + 679 ============================================================ 365138 5957490 576077 5381413 +299880