bsdstats low numbers this month

[Marc G. Fournier]

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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" 
<scrappy at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> - --On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 18:48:26 +0200 Toomas Aas
> <toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee> wrote:
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>> 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 ...
>
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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy at hub.org                              MSN . scrappy at hub.org
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