- Newly available on nic.merit.edu in the nsfnet/statistics directory is the report nets.by.state, which gives a breakdown of US nets configured for the NSFNET/ANSNet backbone. - The reports history.netcount and nets.by.country have been revised to include a breakdown by IP class. <NIC.MERIT.EDU> /nsfnet/statistics/1993/nsf-9309.highlights NSFNET Traffic Distribution Highlights September 1993 Packet Total: 43,278,074,950 Byte Total: 8,268,586,809,600 Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts ============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ====== ftp-data 20 1 9604446650 22.192 1 3415293403250 41.304 telnet 23 2 7148082700 16.517 5 494858358300 5.985 nntp 119 3 3823828500 8.835 2 824291516050 9.969 smtp 25 4 3194735750 7.382 4 534805452800 6.468 domain 53 5 2519422500 5.821 6 236157931350 2.856 ip -4 6 1935750400 4.473 3 563742526200 6.818 irc 6667 7 1032263350 2.385 9 103426953150 1.251 ftp 21 8 820992900 1.897 11 75192359350 0.909 icmp -1 9 798126000 1.844 12 67661349150 0.818 gopher 70 10 762736250 1.762 7 198095673750 2.396 X0 6000 11 375399850 0.867 13 64225062300 0.777 vmnet 175 12 367187350 0.848 8 133415741500 1.614 login/who 513 13 309834900 0.716 14 31232286400 0.378 talk 517 14 271047850 0.626 16 27961837450 0.338 (unknown) 1023 15 264813950 0.612 15 29978357300 0.363 www 80 16 214267950 0.495 10 75401057950 0.912 finger 79 17 192690150 0.445 19 17414834450 0.211 snmp 161 18 157311950 0.363 20 16919897250 0.205 (unknown) 1022 19 135409700 0.313 17 22599408300 0.273 ntp 123 20 135249750 0.313 26 10293204700 0.124 cmd/syslog 514 21 86890200 0.201 18 21247092950 0.257 (unknown) 1021 22 72721500 0.168 23 13693036800 0.166 uucp 540 23 67451300 0.156 21 14305841450 0.173 efs/router 520 24 55623000 0.129 22 14101295850 0.171 (unknown) 1020 25 53845300 0.124 28 9476264950 0.115 bgp 179 26 45855650 0.106 38 4417421250 0.053 (unknown) 1019 27 37675150 0.087 33 6709248250 0.081 ntalk 518 28 36554500 0.084 39 4122017650 0.050 netrjs-1 71 29 34538900 0.080 24 11182429400 0.135 unidata-ldm 388 30 33814800 0.078 25 10812698400 0.131 z39.50 210 33 29200000 0.067 31 8237191650 0.100 X1 6001 73 2568150 0.006 89 335599450 0.004 shilp/sun-nfs 2049 77 2444600 0.006 75 475268200 0.006 X2 6002 95 1716250 0.004 116 149835450 0.002 iso-ip -80 180 274500 0.001 146 82210500 0.001 X3 6003 299 141500 0.000 273 29073450 0.000 prospero 191 468 77050 0.000 165 61595400 0.001 Ordered by decreasing packet counts, this table includes the top 30 services and highlights other selected services. Information for this report is available only for TCP/UDP port numbers 0-1023, 2049, 6000-6003, 6667, and all Internet Protocols (differentiated from TCP/UDP ports by negating the protocol number). More detailed information is available for Anonymous FTP from NIC.MERIT.EDU (the Merit NIC Services machine) in the file "nsf-9309.ports" on the nsfnet/statistics/1993 directory.