BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

[Paul Schmehl]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew 
> Seaman to come up with a more "security sensitive" version of BSDstats 
> ... one that reduces the amount of "sensitive information" stored in the 
> database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...
> 
> This new version also reduces the number of 'network fetches' down to 4 
> for the first run, and 3 for subsequent runs, so it runs a bit faster, 
> and talks across the network less.
> 
> And, finally, this one has its own domain for check in server ...
> 
> None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB 
> format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version 
> and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...
> 
>> From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:
> 
>          http://www.bsdstats.org
> 
Marc, thanks for all your hard work on these issues.

One small change needs to be made.  The pkg-message file reads, at its end:
o view current statistics, go to:
         http://bsdstats.hub.org

That needs to be changed to http://www.bsdstst.org/

This patch will fix it.

--- pkg-message.orig    Mon Aug 14 10:02:29 2006
+++ pkg-message Mon Aug 14 10:02:51 2006
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
         /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics

  To view current statistics, go to:
-        http://bsdstats.hub.org
+        http://www.bsdstats.org
  ********************



-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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