On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:06:33 +0200, "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That's 300,000 different IP addresses that have checked for any updated >software in Fedora Core 6. > >If you simply divide it out, that averages to about 12,500 per day, or 8.7 >every minute. And basically, those are *new installs* of FC6. > >That doesn't take into account proxies and firewalls that can make hundreds of >servers all look like they are coming from the same IP, so the "real" number is >probably even higher than that.
It also doesn't take into account dynamic IP addresses which are usualyl forced to change once every 24 hours, thus counting each installation behind such a connection anew every day. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
