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

[Nikolas Britton]

On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer <fbsd-questions at mawer.org> 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! :-)

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