From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 05:51:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CCE16A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 05:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52FC343FAF for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 05:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1723D34; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:51:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:51:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3FCDA3F6.29035.4317B763@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3FCDE98B.8020701@401.cx> References: <002b01c3b99e$a1dc3340$6c01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime 4.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:51:04 -0000 On 3 Dec 2003 at 14:47, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > I do take for granted that the machine Dirk mentioned in the > original post is unreachable or in some other way impossible to > penetrate similar to my bridges. If it is not, and is indeed > reachable from the internet, then I fully agree with Paul and must > question Dirk's administrator skills. Todays internet is to hostile > for systems that isnt frequently and regularly patched and maintained. >From Dirk's original post: "The system is a bridging firewall with no remote access. No services running, so I had not much to patch (beside tcpdump)." -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/