RIPE DNS Hostcount for DE: Results for February 1999

• There were 244838 zones found and examined
• In these zones 2112930 hosts were found
• 593516 duplicate hosts got discovered
• ... leading to a total number of 1519414 hosts registered under DE.
• We see an increase of 2.7 % compared to last month. The annual rate is at 30.7 % increase.
• There are 12 % more zones than in January and 156 % more than in February 1998.

For an explanation of the large zone growth rate see the September 1997 edition.

This is the first notice only, so stay tuned for the results of the error detection phase.

We again have a new "longest hostname": this.will.be.a.quite.ridiculously.long.hostname.trying.to.achieve.the.limit.in.hostname-length.as.specified.in.rfc1035.by.typing.all.kinds.of.silly.remarks.and.parting.words.with.dots.instead.of.spaces.hey.are.you.still.reading.this.fqdn.fabulous.xis.de With 253 characters, this record cannot be broken. RFC 1035 allows 255 octets in uncompressed wire format, which implies a maximum of 253 characters in unescaped readable representation. The offset of 2 is due to the fact that the number of dots (label separators) is one less than the number of labels (resulting in one less dot than there are lebel length indicators in wire format) and that the trailing zero label is not explicitly represented in the text format.