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Subject: Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Tim Clewlow <tim@clewlow.org> wrote:
> Or count the number of systems that call home, ie count the number
> of different IP addresses that talk to the *BSD servers to install
> or update themselves.

Yes, Colin has aggregate numbers from freebsd-update users.  You could
also get the xfer logs from ftp hosts that serve packages for users
that use pkg_add -r, cvsup, or similar.

             - Murray