Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:31:30 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <20010417043130.F976@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200104171128.VAA08430@caligula.anu.edu.au>; from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:28:25PM %2B1000 References: <3ADBB93B.3C9DC3DE@elischer.org> <200104171128.VAA08430@caligula.anu.edu.au>
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* Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> [010417 04:29] wrote: > In some mail from Julian Elischer, sie said: > > > > there is a site that calculates server uptime from these numbers. > > All the leading machines are freeBSD. When you do this it will > > no-longer be able to track us :-( > > IMHO, extraordinarily large uptimes are nothing to be proud of and > say nothing about the quality of software. > > I'd almost go so far as to say uptimes greater than 1 year indicate > that the system administration practises need review. Agreed. I've yet to hear about any seriously deployed system go without security advisories for over a year. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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