BSDstats Project v2.0 ...
Bill Moran
wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Wed Aug 9 19:16:23 UTC 2006
In response to Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>:
> This problem is intractable: any scheme you can think of to generate a
> unique identifying number on a random host out there on the net will either
> fail to actually be unique, or suffer from mutating over time as machine
> configuration changes.
Really? What if you just generate some sort of UID or GUID and store it
in /var/db/bsdstats.guid (or similar)?
If the file exists, use it, if it doesn't exist, generate a new ID.
Not 100% error prone, but should be pretty damn reliable.
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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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