From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 6 06:27:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3985F16A417 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 06:27:57 +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 C0A6F13C447 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 06:27:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F5E11FDD2B; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:27:56 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95678-02; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:27:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from fserv.hub.org (blk-7-245-234.eastlink.ca [71.7.245.234]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F40B11FDD1D; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:27:51 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by fserv.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C537D8BB31; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:27:51 -0400 (AST) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:27:49 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Marc G. Fournier" , Toomas Aas Message-ID: <279EC099BAFE90BEF8B412EC@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <37A7131529221E7882BDD9E0@ganymede.hub.org> References: <477BC05A.3020104@raad.tartu.ee> <37A7131529221E7882BDD9E0@ganymede.hub.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Antony Mawer Subject: Re: bsdstats low numbers this month X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:27:57 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There, I've just modified the code so that it reports on distinct hosts over the past 60 days, vs just this past month ... for those that *may* have reported several times but have changed their OS (in theory, the only way that could happen is *if* they save/copy their /var/db/bsdstats file across a re-build, mind you), their last reported operating system is what will show up ... This should make the statistics a bit more 'static', since we aren't reporting 'from zero' at the start of each month ... - --On Sunday, January 06, 2008 00:41:26 -0400 "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - --On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 18:48:26 +0200 Toomas Aas > wrote: > >> The numbers for this month at www.bsdstats.org seem strangely low. There are >> currently only 1645 systems listed. There was only one FreeBSD system listed >> from Estonia, while I personally have more than one system (in Estonia) which >> did report in on January 1st using the monthly periodic script. Just now I >> re-ran the periodic script manually on one system and the number of FreeBSD >> systems in Estonia instantly doubled :) >> >> Maybe there is some change-of-year bug in the bsdstats website code? > > No, failed monitoring on one of the reporting servers ... we added a second > circuit onto our network in '07 to deal with some DDoS issues, and moved our > secondary reporting server onto that circuit end of Dec, and failed to notice > that it wasn't connecting properly to the database server ... > > Everything is fixed now, but we lost the '1st of the month' data that went > through that reporting server :( > > I'm working on fixing the stats, as someone else suggested, so that we're > dealing with 'last 30 days' (or even 60) vs 'this month', which will > hopefully make the reported stats a bit less 'jumpy' ... working on that one > tonight ... > > - ---- > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFHgFv24QvfyHIvDvMRAjsmAKCg5lTr9IG40lIJs2/ox2NxBPVFaQCgv77k > b+BQ5RBbbEkCoY/VyD6RQoA= > =/aOO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" - ---- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHgHTl4QvfyHIvDvMRAmBkAJoCv0TtQ4ENHrz2403J8ymqkUfpmQCgkcvM gf6Z+K7mXaEqGty+moabOS0= =Pskv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----