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Re: Fwd: FC6 downloads and installs



On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:06:33 +0200, "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe"
<tshepang@gmail.com> 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

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