Johannes Wiedersich <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> writes: > Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Merely the number of distinct IP addresses downloading a particular >> popular update from security.debian.org at least once would be >> interesting. > > Did you think about thousands of computers having 'private ips' with > some nat translation and/or local proxie? (I'm thinking of computer > labs, companies, etc. not just the odd home user). Essentially all of > the computers at our department share the same public IP.
Right, there are many reasons why such a number wouldn't be perfect, but I still believe it would be interesting to know. Especially if you plot the trend in a graph to watch yearly changes. If you get 10 such indicator variables that likely are somehow correlated to the number of machines (virtual or not) running debian plotted in a graph, and watch the trends, that is likely to be the best measure we are likely to ever get. Or are there any better ideas on how to get a good estimate? /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
