From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 02:10:31 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 5FD7016A4DA for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:10:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771F543D4C for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:10:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n15so1275428nfc for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:10:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pvLRUgeEXYNel0S01j1WPXxJnk6OWe3Kc9Y2t40gNmifSlwuFx4Alr+kpeOk84coNM0vDjYUeaF5SL1V8mnf/jQSqc2Ovb2oezvVXyZ0QeLqvAz10Js0zE3etk0aw8P5p/0SC2P57OI6Ox3XV6rFwnmkiffdQdUslx8rmt2mwpo= Received: by 10.78.147.3 with SMTP id u3mr1365556hud; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:10:29 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Antony Mawer" In-Reply-To: <44D2A9BF.7070007@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060802203604.A6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D153D0.9000304@webanoide.org> <87wt9qzh2i.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060803011653.G6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D1A866.2030206@mawer.org> <20060803154705.X6529@ganymede.hub.org> <44D29220.1000807@mawer.org> <44D2A9BF.7070007@mawer.org> Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? 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: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:10:31 -0000 On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 4/08/2006 11:44 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > 899 bytes * (10^7) = 8.37258995 gigabytes... Remember... Once this > > code is pushed out to hosts you can't change it. 10 years from now > > we'll still have hosts sending in old data.... What was wrong with my > > netcat idea? > > > > uname -mr | nc statistics.freebsd.org 1234 > > > > It's one, short, line of code and you know exactly what it's doing. > > Simple, Easy, Done. > > Part of the idea I mentioned earlier was using a hash of this > information... so the first time you send it through, you generate a > hash and store it... then in future you can iterate over the hardware > list, hash it, compare it against your stored hash, and only send if the > hardware inventory has changed... > > Not everywhere has unrestricted access out to the Internet via whatever > port they want... I know of many sites that only allow HTTP, and only > via a proxy... > Ok how about: uname -mr | nc statistics.freebsd.org 80 Wow, that was easy! :-) -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/