From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 16:59:53 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 8128716A4DE for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:59:53 +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 E21D443D6B for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:59:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A76B290C98; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86857-04; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6182A290C20; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 76FD75C9F0; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708DD33DF1; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:51 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:51 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: pauls@utdallas.edu In-Reply-To: <18983F75ECCB22D9B189A989@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> Message-ID: <20060809135728.I7522@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060807003815.C7522@ganymede.hub.org> <20060808102819.GB64879@augusta.de> <20060808153921.V7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D8EC98.8020801@utdallas.edu> <20060808201359.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <44D91F02.90107@mawer.org> <18983F75ECCB22D9B189A989@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Antony Mawer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Up to v2.2 ... ( Was: 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 16:59:53 -0000 On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, pauls@utdallas.edu wrote: > --On August 9, 2006 9:32:18 AM +1000 Antony Mawer > wrote: > >> On 9/08/2006 9:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>>> 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 ... >> >> What if we improved upon this - if instead of storing the hostname and >> IP address, we stored a one-way hash of this information? OpenSSH in >> recent versions takes the same approach with its authorized_keys files... >> > I like that idea. I'm ready to submit my workstation, but I'm still a bit > hesitant about some servers I admin....A one way hash would alleviate my > concerns. 'k, v2.2 brings us up to hashed unique keys, for more anonymity, and we've just added 'class' and 'subclass' to the devices report, so that we can improve the reporting, namely, so that we can group things better (ie. all RAID controllers or all ethernet controllers), that sort of thing ... the devices list is getting a bit big to load right now ... the 'all devices' list will still be available, but, for instance, ppl looking to see 'most popular ethernet controller', this should help speed things up a bit ... ---- 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