[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Final result of first OSI++ query (fwd)





> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Final result of the first osi++ query.
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:22:47 +0200 (CEST)
> From: osi++ mechanic <osicount@golfish.cube.net>
> 
> 
> Today the final results of the first osi++ query came in.
> 
> The source for the host addresses which osi++ was examining claims,
> that these host addresses are the complete host count for all these 
> European domains:
> 
> ..am .at .az .ba	.be .bg .by .ch .cy .de .dk .dz .ee .eg .es .fi .fo .fr
> ..gb .ge .gr .hr .ie .il .is .it .lu .lv .ma .md .mk .mt .nl .no .pl .pt 
> ..ro .ru .se .si .sk .sm .su .tn .tr .ua .uk .va .yu 
> 
> This first osi++ query did only query web servers. This added up to
> 709460 host addresses. From these hosts, about 14500 addresses could not
> resolved and it remained about 694000 IP addresses to check. 
> 
> Which osi++ did. 
> 
> It recognized the OS of 579811 hosts. This is about 86% of all
> hosts queried. 14% of the hosts queried were not recognized, which split
> up mainly into 5% which were dead or firewalled and 9% where there was a
> response, but this response could not resolved into an OS. Probably causes
> for this are incomplete QUESO packet database, packet loss during query 
> or kinky routing devices.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> And here are the osi++ Top Ten for the July/August:
> 
> 
> 
>            operating system      count        % of all recognized 
> 	   -----------------    ------       --
> 	1. Linux              	163264       28
>  	2. BSD                	133402       23
>  	3. Windows 95/98/NT   	129451       22
>       4. Solaris    		 88385       15
> 	5. Digital Unix          11362        2	
>  	6. AIX    		 11266        2   
>  	7. Mac/Apple    	 11047        2
> 	8. HPUX     		  6089        1
>  	9  SCO Unix     	  2957        1
>        10. Reliant Unix (Siemens) 2561       <1
>            ------------------------------------  
>            total                559786       97
> 
> 
> BSD delivered a strong finish and catched second in front of
> the Windows family. Sorry to say that it is impossible atthe 
> moment to resolve the Windows hosts into their versions. 
> Perhaps can be improved in the future.
> 
> 
> I'll post these results at the osi++ web page as time allows.
> The August survey is just now rolling on and should be done
> after 7 days, depending on how many hosts have added in the 
> meantime. osi++ has to catch up to get in sync with the date these
> hosts addresses get available.
> 
> 
> The raw output of the summarizing perl script comes as attachment.
> There you'll see also a detailed output.
> 
> Enjoy!
> hans
> 
> 
> -- 
> osi++counter == stuff that really counts...
> osi++counter == ...counting the operating systems of the Internet.
> osi++counter == http://members.tripod.com/~hzo/osi_counter/
> osi++counter == echo""|mail -s subscribe osicount-list@goldfish.cube.net