http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_channel_1.html Newsfeed of MZL & Novatech Traffic & Bandwidth Statistics product and service releases en http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_610.html The MZL & Novatech TrafficStatistic Webshop eleminated the setup see for .de Domains an so offers now registration and 1 year of maintainance of .de Domains for 6.99 Euro per year without any setup fee. If you don't want to use your own DNS servers and webspace, MZL & Novatech TrafficStatistic Webshop still offers DNS service for 2.49 Euro yearly per domain and 250 MB of php and mysql featured webspace to serve as many domains as you want for just 2.99 Euro yearly. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_561.html Since it's opening on 6th of October 2004 the Traffic Statistics Web Directory grew to 10,000 resource and software entries. While the directory quickly grows and usage increases, the database behind it proved to stand the doubled number of entries due to about 10,000 spamming attempts. Though the Traffic Statistics Web Directory received tons of link spams, the directory remained as simple to use as possible for people submitting serios resources - just enter the information and press submit. The spam checks are done invisibly for honest submitters in the background based on rules and a quickly growing list of 2nd level domains being advertized Most of the entries were submitted using a PAD file, many submitters used the help of submission software like robosoft, what is fine for this directory. Future development of the directory is planned to pick specific use cases of computers and grain categorization more fine for these specificly picked use cases and also to build more search options for users. The TrafficStatistic team thanks all participants and users. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_520.html The Traffic Statistics Web Directory does not only list software related to bandwidth monitoring, broadband technology and usage, but also other valuable resources like manuals, howto pages, tutorials or demonsrations. While software submissions are already continously dropping in, submissions of links to other valuable know-how resources like tutorials, howtos or articles are still rather rare. Visitors, authors and webmasters are invited to submit links and descriptions to broadband or network related websites. The short introduction into SNMP alarm monitoring from DPS telecom is a good example of a valuable submission to category Network & Internet Know-how. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_506.html Though still operating in beta mode, mainly fine-tuning spam prevention routines and administration tasks at the moment, the Traffic Statistics Web Directory gained already some popularity among visitors and authors. RSS 0.91 feeds are now available for all categories of the Traffic Statistics Web Directory, feed readers are invited to subscribe to the feeds of their choice, webmasters are invited to embed the feeds into their homepages and authors are invited to furhter submit to the directory and get this extra promotion for their software. Each category has it's own feed, it is linked behind the small orange XML graphic shown on each category software list page, see the feed for the network & internet category as an example for the resource listing of the network & internet category. Additionally their is a feed containing all entries analog to the all entries category. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_483.html Since we started the traffic statistics web directory for bandwidth monitor, network management and broadband related resources in beta mode about three months ago, the directory was flooded with all kinds of screensavers and other software making the computer more beautiful. We were stunning that people like such software happily visiting such web sites and probably downloading such stuff. To get an impression what the software is all about, we just put the MSN Love Names through the kaspersky online, and, woops, it found adware inside. So, to those, who can't live without a msn love name or a screensaver, be aware, that it contains adware. See the kaspersky online scanner results of 2005-02-08: Scanned file: Love-Names-Setup.exe Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0001 - OK Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0002 - OK Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0003 - OK Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0004 - infected by not-a-virus:AdWare.180Solutions Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0005 - OK Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0006 - OK Love-Names-Setup.exe/stream/data0007 - OK Here are some instructions how to remove the 180 solutions adware N-Case. To all the other's, be aware that our directory allows real time submissions of anybody in the web, so be aware that we might not have checked the directory entries. We are going to rate and order the many hundreds of entries a bit later ... http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_387.html Formerly we, MZL & Novatech TrafficStatistic, named our IPTDR data records in openly published format IPDR as the data our traffic statistics program collects are Internet Protocol Detail Records in the meaning of the words: Usage Detail records from Internet Protocol Network Layer. In billing industry it is common to name abbreviate detail records with DR and prepend the type of detail records in front of it like CDR for Call Detail Records in voice services, EDR for Event Detail Records for 3G services or XDR on a way to an RFC as a description of Any Detail Records just analog to the XML specified only after the specific HTML case. As the MZL & Novatech TrafficStatistic program collects IP Detail Records, using the abbreviation IPDR was just a logical implication. Since an organisation named IPDR.org claims now in October 2004 to have the abbreviation IPDR protected by a trademark "IPDR compliant (TM)", Traffic Statistics respect the wish of ipdr.org to have us changing the wording of the Traffic Statistics Detail Records, though ipdr.org does not even provide a specification of real IPDR as IP Detail Records in narrow sense of the word, but provides a specification for network data usage information in general, as Marianne Jenkinson from ipdr.org remarks in her letter requesting MZL & Novatech TrafficStatistic to change the wording. So, as consequence to the request of Marianne Jenkinson we changed the wording of our Internet Protocol data record format to IPTDR as abbreviation for Internet Protocol Traffic Detail Records. Anyway it might happen, that due to technical reasons in some parts of the Traffic Statistics software or the website the string IPDR still occurs. In this case, please read it as if it would have been written IPTDR. Please note, that Traffic Statistics does not follow the IPDR specification as published by IPDR.org nor intends to do so, because Traffic Statistics does believe that fulfilling the IPDR specification by IPDR.org would - consume too much memory and CPU power (users wouldn't like to order an extra CPU for IPDR compliance), - would enlarge our software to useless complexity and - Traffic Statistics believes, that the IPDR format from IPDR.org is far less popular and less sensible as a standard than Cisco's NetFlow(TM) format. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_369.html Network traffic statistics have a history almost as long as computer networks exists. Since these days there have been developed very many tools and resources to calculate internet traffic statistics. Though it seems to be good for users that there exist so many tools and resources, this brings the problem to find the appropriate tool or resource. An example: If a webmaster wants to get statistics about his website, he can choose from very many available tools and resources. But there are two common problems: knowing which resources exist and information to select the appropriate tool or resource. Statistics of a website is a part of internet traffic statistics, the webmaster might choose to buy an enterprise class program for a lot of money to get detailed analysis of millions of hits a day or he might decide for a shareware or freeware program to compute statistics from logfiles or just he might need a one line script to embed into his web pages to get appropriate statistics for his website or it might be better to let it be done for him by an online web site traffic analysis service. What's appropriate depends on what target shall be reached. The plenty of choices is already confusing. Similar to this are neighbored topics of internet protocol bandwidth statistics, link monitoring or advertizing efficiency measurements. That's what the traffic statistics directory will head for - bringing transparency to available solutions. In so far existing directories traffic statstics tools are listed in various diffrent categories not focused on traffic statistics, but on dial-up tools, network monitoring or miscellaneous system utilities and all of the directories we know so far are far not complete, some list only free- or sareware programs, other only open source tools, other list scripts and some else list just web sites with further information. That's what the Traffic Statistic web directory distinguishes in various ways from: it categorizes deeply into diffrent traffic statistics related tools and technics and allows all types of programs and web site resources to be listed. To achieve this task, the Traffic Statistics Web Directory uses automated processes like the Traffic Statistics News Robot and editorial processes like human reviews. We invite anyone to take part into the building of this directory and submit resources to the traffic statistics directory. A last word: The directory infrastructure is just been build up and the directory will be feeded shortly. The technics behind the directory became rather complex, so if you encounter any problems in the beginning, please take or apologizes and report the problem you encountered to us. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_286.html According to our own logs and recent reports in blogs referer misuse increases. TrafficStatistic News has already reported about referral spam several times. TrafficStatistic wrote an article giving some practical tips for webmasters to protect themselves against being fooled by referral spam. Recently there appeared a Windows based tool for mass generation of referral spam, so it can be expected that referral spam will increase in the near future to a so far unknown high level. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_240.html During the last days the TrafficStatistic News Robot was enhenced for grepping and evaluating pads. Sites having published a pad in the asp pad repository, will be or have been visited by an agent identifying itself in User Agent header as TrafficStatistic PAD Get. If you read this message and have not been visited so far, you might want to add a link to your pad file to our news section, the TrafficStatistic PAD Get will then come and get the pad then automatically. And as a special bonus for submitting your pad already, you will get the additional publicity of being published in Traffic Statistic news feeds. Unlike other pad based download libraries, MZL & Novatech Traffic Statistic will accept any serious resource to bandwidth and traffic statistics related resources - it can be a program to download, a script, an ASP offer (an offer from an Application Service Provider like beacon based web site statistics), a tutorial or an article. It doesn't matter of what type the resource is as long as it might be interesting for our visitors. In fact, many of our visitors don't know the type of resource they are looking for at our web site, for example to get web site statistics any of the above mentioned resource types can help to get fine web site statistics, so we are open to any types of valuable resources. The only limit is, that the resource has to have a title, a valid link and a description. We expect to bring the resource database gained from TrafficStatistic PAD Get online after applying several filters and proceeding categorizing in some weeks. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_187.html Capturing data from Winsock instead of WinPCap on Windows XP WinPCap works really well and stable on Windows computers, where the network kernel functions haven't been changed by 3rd party applications. Since some 3rd party firewalls or antivirus kits seem to change the Windows kernel, they might cause problems. These problems might be reduced, when using WinSock data capturing instead of WinPCap. Here is a library for TrafficStatistic, that will use Winsocks instead of WinPCap. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_183.html It is published for download a config file showing how the ports to services table can be changed. The change in the example assigns filesharing traffic on the typical ports to a fictive filesharing service and introduced a fictive servce icq. Also a configuration file is published which changes the number of the most traffic consuming hosts and services from 10 to 50 in the free Usage Development Report and in the Multi OPtional Network Report. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_181.html In this help page is also discussed the reverse DNS resolution at data collection time and an outlook explains how adblocker technics like the "KL Supertrick" or malware like Swen manipulate DNS using the hosts file on Windows machines. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_169.html Software distributed over the internet is usually subject to reviews from download archive website editors. While users can get a rather good imagination of how well the software is, the quality of the software reviews from the point of a software manufacturer remains in the dark. Since our first days publishing the TrafficStatistic software, MZL & Novatech has maintained a database, commenting the reviewer sites to know the site already when coming back a second time. Since such comments might be valuable for new software manufacturers, MZL & Novatech decided to publish these reviews of the reviewers to be useful for the next people taking the long way to submit their software to all the download sites. MZL & Novatech shares their submission site database to improve the quality of information for all software manufacturers - everyone is welcome to participate in building up and to benefit from this database. Though the database starts rather small with less then 100 entries, MZL & Novatech will let this database continously grow and hopes for the software manufacturing community to take part in the growth. http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_139.html http://www.trafficstatistic.com/news/news_item_67.html Price and cost structures in the webhosting and domain registration industry can be very confusing for beginners. This article shows how prices and costs may be calculated, how to benefit from structural inconsistencies and how to avoid pitfalls The article may be edited and republished.