On 8/3/06, Antony Mawer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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