Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:50:38 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <20060802014844.Y27679@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0608012104l7f86bb9eu10e0d00a11d306e9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <871ws1v261.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060731220830.B27679@ganymede.hub.org> <ef10de9a0608010121j154c7ael7ece0997a479572e@mail.gmail.com> <20060801120058.O27679@ganymede.hub.org> <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <ef10de9a0608011037w3609b5a6k1709aea61d43ed0f@mail.gmail.com> <20060801223754.U27679@ganymede.hub.org> <ef10de9a0608011859q45bdd636o757fb4aba2d3404d@mail.gmail.com> <20060801230301.Q27679@ganymede.hub.org> <ef10de9a0608012104l7f86bb9eu10e0d00a11d306e9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/1/06, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> >> > Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness? >> >> We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per >> host, how are you going to know whether to update a hosts record, instead >> of add it as a new host? >> > > But no matter what you do you can never guaranty a hosts uniqueness... > What you want to do is akin to DRM and there is no way to do this in > the open source world. > > What is wrong with a total host count? If all hosts are reporting in > once per month then whats the problem?... just simple addition: > > DATA: > 6.1-STABLE i386 > 6.0-RELEASE i386 > 6.1-RELEASE-p2 AMD I guess I'm just trying to make it as accurate as possible, and fear someone "fetch bombing" just to artificially increase the #s ... but, then again, if they did do that, even with a unique value, it wouldn't take much to create a random one for that purpose ... So, ya, I guess a unique id would be pretty useless ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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