From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 8 23:16:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E177316A4E1; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:16:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7EA43D5E; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:16:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F04290C74; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:16:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69137-01; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E8F7290C37; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:16:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 546065CCFE; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:16:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531955CB1E; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:16:16 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:16:16 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Paul Schmehl In-Reply-To: <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> Message-ID: <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:16:15 -0000 On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Marc, I have a couple of questions. > > You use hostname and IP as a unique identifier for each host. For that > reason, I have not submitted any of our systems. We use FreeBSD for > sensitive security-related tasks, and we're loath to reveal that information. > (When I submit or update ports, I always alter the uname information to > "hostname.utdallas.edu" for that reason.) > > Can you tell me exactly what you do with those two pieces of data? Is there > any way that information would be accessible from the internet? Absolutely nothing else we do with it ... it just gives us a unique key to work with ... in fact, assuming each of your servers use a different IP, there is no reason you couldn't do the uname trick above to hide the hostname ... Unless someone breaks into the server, or database, somehow, the data isn't accessible ... > Finally, it looks like your number one problem is going to be > maintainence. Right now you're showing a ".x" and a "F.x" release. Not > sure if that's tampering or what, but it's obviously not legit. You > also have a sudden influx of hosts from Armenia. Again, don't know if > they're legit or not, but keeping up with that stuff is going to require > eyes-on type manual labor. I hope you've planned for that. Have planned for it, and, in fact, am going to be making a couple of extra changes to the schema to allow for cleaning it up easier ... ---- 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