Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

[User Freebsd]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> On 8/1/06, User Freebsd <freebsd at hub.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:
>> 
>> > Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness?
>> 
>> We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per
>> host, how are you going to know whether to update a hosts record, instead
>> of add it as a new host?
>> 
>
> But no matter what you do you can never guaranty a hosts uniqueness...
> What you want to do is akin to DRM and there is no way to do this in
> the open source world.
>
> What is wrong with a total host count? If all hosts are reporting in
> once per month then whats the problem?... just simple addition:
>
> DATA:
> 6.1-STABLE i386
> 6.0-RELEASE i386
> 6.1-RELEASE-p2 AMD

I guess I'm just trying to make it as accurate as possible, and fear 
someone "fetch bombing" just to artificially increase the #s ... but, then 
again, if they did do that, even with a unique value, it wouldn't take 
much to create a random one for that purpose ...

So, ya, I guess a unique id would be pretty useless ...


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