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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:01:29 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Unified download stats [and better presentation of same]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970401125000.18394J-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <13139.859856167@time.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> As a very rough and first-order attempt at this, for the last week or
> so I've been having ftp.freebsd.org send me little messages like this:
> 
> From: "Root wcarchive.cdrom.com" <root@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
> Message-Id: <199703311111.DAA07942@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
> To: freebsd-stats@freebsd.org
> 
> FreeBSD downloads over last 24 hours (up to Mar 31 03:01) from ftp.FreeBSD.org:
>         3.0-970209-SNAP   14 copies.
>         2.1.7.1-RELEASE   53 copies.
>         2.2.1-RELEASE    139 copies.

Looks good.
 
> shows ONE mirror site, however, and this is a drawback which we need
> to address before such statistics will become truly useful.  We also
> need to make sure of the accuracy of our statistics, and this means
> that any mirrors which are mirroring things multiple times (I seem to
> recall Christoph Kukulies having some problems with this?) need to be
> identified and their duplicate entries filtered out of the raw data.

> I also need to somehow collect stats for all the mirrors, run once a
> day and sent to the ``freebsd-stats@freebsd.org'' alias I've just

> 	1. Anyone have a good way of detecting mirror looping from
> 	   wu-ftpd style xferlogs? 
> 	   This would help both our bandwidth and our stats.

I see you have made 221/usr/src/release/sysinstall/ftp.c
announce itself as 'installer' in the password/e-mail address field.)
Would it be possible for cooperating hubs to announce themselves 
consistently in the password/e-mail field too?  That would certainly make 
it easier.

Danny





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