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Subject: Re: lease.openlogging.org is unreachable
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 18:18, Larry McVoy wrote:
> The other answer, which I'm happy to consider, is to come up with a unique
> id on a per host basis and use that for the leases.  That's not a fun task,
> does anyone have code (BSD license please) which does that?

libuuid does that on straight statistical probability - what properties
do you want your id to have ?