Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:00:25 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netcraft Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012150329390.19239-100000@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <186daa180eb6.180eb6186daa@marquette.edu>
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But what everyone is saying is that why would you want to advertise your uptime? Only bad can come of that. Like script kiddies or worse seeing it as a challenge and attacking until they can get in. No one else wants it to do that, so no one sees it as fixing FreeBSD to get it to tell a scan the uptime of a box. If it's not fixing something, why do it? As for the 497day rollover, I'm pretty sure they are wrong. In the record uptimes list there is one FreeBSD box (it is the number two overall, I think) with over 800 days uptime. And yes of course those can be fudged. I think the rollover used to be a problem with most unices but has been fixed. Tim On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > Let me say this first, I love FreeBSD. Its a great platform. Now, on to > other matters. > > > > the "default configuration problem?" > > > > What makes you think its a problem? > > If I thought it was a TRUE problem I wouldn't have put it in quotes. > > > Would you want to advertise > > your > > uptime so the script kiddies can confirm their kills? > > No offense to anyone, but for all the responses I've seen to this, none > actually answered the question. And worst of all, I sense that I'm > being given a slightly negative response here. Now maybe that's not > what you meant to do, but I honestly think that as a forum we could > come across a little more politely at times. > > Continuing.... > > Mike, thanks for the attempt at answering. I wish I knew how netcraft > pulled their results so that I could figure out how to get them to > accurately report it. That's why I asked if anyone else had an idea. I > did some searching on their site, but apparently they don't provide > that information. As for the information I provided, it was from quotes > from their FAQ page. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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