Smolt database is broken

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 16:04 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:25:47PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Here's the top 5:
> > 
> >    266 28caf2c3-9766-4fe1-9e4c-d6b0ba8a0132
> >    336 810e7126-1c69-4aff-b8b1-9db0fa8aa15a
> >    402 c8dbb9d3-a9bd-4ba6-b92e-4a294ba5a95f
> >    884 06e84493-e024-44b1-9b32-32d78af04039
> >    931 e2b67e1d-e325-4740-b938-795addb45280
> > 
> > 
> > The left number is times this month someone has submitted a profile with 
> > that UUID.  If we take the last one as an example has come from over 800 
> > IP's in the last 20 days.  It seems very unlikely that one person would 
> > find his way to 800 different IP's this month.  Let me know if you'd 
> > like more.
> 
> We shouldn't have any duplicates if its properly random. I don't know how
> relevant the actual values are myself because random numbers is "hard maths"
> and I'm not a mathematician. I've raised it however but since its turkey
> genoiciding season in the USA it might be a bit slow

Is rfc4122 being used ?
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt

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