From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 04:11:31 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 2DEF616A4DD; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:11:31 +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 6739C43D62; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C05291B00; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:11:24 -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 38008-06; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFB3290C37; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:11:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 9C4045C671; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:11:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8CB45C48; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:11:24 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:11:24 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Antony Mawer In-Reply-To: <44D95E39.8010006@mawer.org> Message-ID: <20060809010741.M7522@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <810a540e0608071342h70a717cdxb8a1d9e077c354c9@mail.gmail.com> <20060807170521.09ce4122.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <44D7B1FC.5040406@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060807231345.E7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D839A4.8070904@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060808111631.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8D94B.6050208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060808233718.X7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060809004840.U7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D95E39.8010006@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , Nikolas Britton , 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: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:11:31 -0000 On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 9/08/2006 1:49 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: >>> PCBSD# uname -a >>> FreeBSD PCBSD.localhost 6.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri >>> Jun 16 09:21:34 PDT 2006 >>> root@PCBSD.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSDv1.11 i386 >> >> Unfortunately, if they are *all* the same hostname, and behind NAT, they >> will just be seen as *one* host ... what is PCBSD? > > It's a user-friendly version of FreeBSD designed to provide a workstation > environment for the more novice-style users.. see here for details: > > http://www.pcbsd.org/?p=learnhome > > It's not a different BSD OS per se (as opposed to Free/Dragonfly/Net/OpenBSD) > but obviously the pre-defined hostname is a problem for determining > uniqueness... I wonder if this is something better addressed by the PC-BSD > developers as part of their setup process? In this case, I think it would have to be ... as much as I hate to refer to Windoze, but even they at least do something semi random when you setup the machine for a hostname, so that not everyone is 'the same' ... ---- 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