Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 13:01:29 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.org, www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unified download stats [and better presentation of same] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970401125000.18394J-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <13139.859856167@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > As a very rough and first-order attempt at this, for the last week or > so I've been having ftp.freebsd.org send me little messages like this: > > From: "Root wcarchive.cdrom.com" <root@wcarchive.cdrom.com> > Message-Id: <199703311111.DAA07942@wcarchive.cdrom.com> > To: freebsd-stats@freebsd.org > > FreeBSD downloads over last 24 hours (up to Mar 31 03:01) from ftp.FreeBSD.org: > 3.0-970209-SNAP 14 copies. > 2.1.7.1-RELEASE 53 copies. > 2.2.1-RELEASE 139 copies. Looks good. > shows ONE mirror site, however, and this is a drawback which we need > to address before such statistics will become truly useful. We also > need to make sure of the accuracy of our statistics, and this means > that any mirrors which are mirroring things multiple times (I seem to > recall Christoph Kukulies having some problems with this?) need to be > identified and their duplicate entries filtered out of the raw data. > I also need to somehow collect stats for all the mirrors, run once a > day and sent to the ``freebsd-stats@freebsd.org'' alias I've just > 1. Anyone have a good way of detecting mirror looping from > wu-ftpd style xferlogs? > This would help both our bandwidth and our stats. I see you have made 221/usr/src/release/sysinstall/ftp.c announce itself as 'installer' in the password/e-mail address field.) Would it be possible for cooperating hubs to announce themselves consistently in the password/e-mail field too? That would certainly make it easier. Danny
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