Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: mail headers Message-ID: <222@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 25 Apr 89 16:19:09 GMT References: <248.244422A4@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <636@dtscp1.UUCP> <1628@ccnysci.UUCP> <641@dtscp1.UUCP> <1989Apr24.203137.5835@utzoo.uucp> <10825@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 12 In-reply-to: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) In article <10825@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, tytso@athena (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes: >The best estimate of the number of Internet sites (which includes >Arpanet, NSFnet, etc.) which I have is 56,000. Again, does anybody >have a better figure? I just attended a course given by Paul Mockapetris, and he believes the figure is closer to 100,000. He knows of two companies that have ~20,000 hosts that aren't connected/publicized. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett,