The Internet Operating System Counter

...stuff that counts ;)

The Internet Operating System Counter is a survey about operating system usage on the Internet. Host addresses are collected and queried for their operating system using queso. Queso is the Hispanic shortcut for "Que Sistema Operativo?" which translates into "which operating system?"

For this OS count the RIPE Host Count was used to collect host addresses. Also host addresses of the .edu domain were used. (.edu is own host collection done with Eric Wassenaar's nameserver query tool host. ). All host names beginning with 'ftp.', 'news.' and 'www.' (case insensitive) were queried. Data collection was performed between 08. April 99 and 19. April 99

The current April count has processed 1.465.124 hosts addresses.

The Internet Operating System Count April `99

FTP.* (294.656 hosts queried) News.* (31.448 hosts queried) WWW.* (1.139.020 hosts queried)

Results for Each Domain

RIPE Host Count (FTP.* + News.* + WWW.*): .ad .al .am .at .az .ba .be .bf .bg .bh .bj .by .cf .ch .ci .cm .cv .cy .cz .de .dj .dk .dz .ee .eg .er .es .fi .fo .fr .ga .gb .ge .gg .gh .gi .gl .gn .gq .gr .gw .hr .hu .ie (.il) .im .iq .ir .is .it .je .jo .ke .kg .kz .lb .li .lr .lt .lu .lv .ly .ma .mc .md .mk .ml .mt .ne .ng .nl .no .om .pl .pt .qa .ro .ru .sa .se .si .sj .sk .sl .sm .sn .su .sy .td .tj .tm .tn .tr .ua .ug .uk .uz .va .ye .yu

RIPE Host Count (FTP.*): .ad .al .am .at .az .ba .be .bf .bg .bh .bj .by .cf .ch .ci .cm .cv .cy .cz .de .dj .dk .dz .ee .eg .er .es .fi .fo .fr .ga .gb .ge .gg .gh .gi .gl .gn .gq .gr .gw .hr .hu .ie (.il) .im .iq .ir .is .it .je .jo .ke .kg .kz .lb .li .lr .lt .lu .lv .ly .ma .mc .md .mk .ml .mt .ne .ng .nl .no .om .pl .pt .qa .ro .ru .sa .se .si .sj .sk .sl .sm .sn .su .sy .td .tj .tm .tn .tr .ua .ug .uk .uz .va .ye .yu

RIPE Host Count (News.*): .ad .al .am .at .az .ba .be .bf .bg .bh .bj .by .cf .ch .ci .cm .cv .cy .cz .de .dj .dk .dz .ee .eg .er .es .fi .fo .fr .ga .gb .ge .gg .gh .gi .gl .gn .gq .gr .gw .hr .hu .ie (.il) .im .iq .ir .is .it .je .jo .ke .kg .kz .lb .li .lr .lt .lu .lv .ly .ma .mc .md .mk .ml .mt .ne .ng .nl .no .om .pl .pt .qa .ro .ru .sa .se .si .sj .sk .sl .sm .sn .su .sy .td .tj .tm .tn .tr .ua .ug .uk .uz .va .ye .yu

RIPE Host Count (WWW.*): .ad .al .am .at .az .ba .be .bf .bg .bh .bj .by .cf .ch .ci .cm .cv .cy .cz .de .dj .dk .dz .ee .eg .er .es .fi .fo .fr .ga .gb .ge .gg .gh .gi .gl .gn .gq .gr .gw .hr .hu .ie (.il) .im .iq .ir .is .it .je .jo .ke .kg .kz .lb .li .lr .lt .lu .lv .ly .ma .mc .md .mk .ml .mt .ne .ng .nl .no .om .pl .pt .qa .ro .ru .sa .se .si .sj .sk .sl .sm .sn .su .sy .td .tj .tm .tn .tr .ua .ug .uk .uz .va .ye .yu

The .edu domain:
results in detail for ftp.*.edu, news.*.edu and www.*.edu.

Operating Systems Among Domains

Distribution of operating systems among domains. Highest OS usage on top for

AIX BSD Digital Unix HPUX IRIX Linux Mac/Apple Novell Netware Reliant Unix/Sinix SCO Unix Solaris/SunOS Windows 95/98/NT

The Development of Networking

The fledgling precursor to the Internet was four nodes large by the end of 1969. Kleinrock recalls the very first use of the network to perform a remote login from UCLA to SRI crashing the system. A Brief History of Computer Networking and the Internet

Find out how networking under UNIX has developed and check out the UNIX networking evolution tree. Looks pretty chaotic? This tree covers UNIX only so there are no WINDOWS leaves. But since network stack for WINDOWS 95/98/NT is pretty the same, you wouldn't see a leave but only a point near 'BSD 4.3'. That's also the reason why queso cannot distinguish different WINDOWS versions. But this will change with the coming version of WINDOWS 2000 which will present a modernized stack.

OS Statistics on the 'Net

Interpreting WWW statistics ...is like nailing Jell-o to the wall. So be warned :)

Watch the weekly grow rate of the Web at the Internet Domain Statistics

The Internet Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet.

Counting hosts and users of the Linux OS is the job of The Linux Counter

The Netcraft Web Server Survey statistics about market share of web server software.

E-Soft provides a web server survey and a web server probe using queso.

Insecure.org's nmap can find out the OS a host is running (and much more).

The Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter ...what people "on the streets" are saying.

Remote OS Detection an article in PHRACK Magazine, Vol. 8/54. written by Fyodor (nmap author).

Queso was tested here and "...success rate...was...nearly 100 percent."

Other "Rare" Operating Systems on the Internet

There is a small colony of AMIGAs out there on the Net.

Supporters of OS/2 are defending their colors closing up together in The Warp WebRing or are holding single defense positions here and there.

You know links to other operating system pointers/counters? Where are the Ataris, PC64s, Sinclairs? Hit reply now and tell me!

Credits go to...

Alex Khalil and the crew from leb.net who are kindly hosting my Internet OS Counter. They have donated lots of CPU cycles, connectivity, disk space and nerves so far.

savage@apostols.org and all who have contributed to queso OS fingerprint analyzer.

Mr. Larry 'The Perl' Wall for his wonderful egg laying wool milk pig of a scripting language. Perl performed fantastically, digesting huge chunks of log files into formatted results. Where other tools (or the code writer :) might have choked, Perl did bite.

Disclaimer

Warranty

I think, that The Internet Operating System Counter is pretty reliable. But - sorry American lawyers - the results of The Internet Operating System Counter are given without any warranty. If you don't like the data, feel free to ignore them. :)

Fair Use, CopyLeft

Excerpts from this survey may be freely used and reproduced if The Internet Operating System Counter and its URL www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount are attributed. The Internet Operating System Counter is © 1998, 1999 Hans U. Zoebelein. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners (until assimilated :).

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