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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2001 11:41:13 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uptime limits
Message-ID:  <20010522114113.N30256@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0105211834460.16994-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>; from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:10:25PM -0700
References:  <20010522102726.J30256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0105211834460.16994-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>

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On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 19:10:25 -0700, Chuck Rouillard wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 17:37:20 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, 21 May 2001 at 14:08:32 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have heard hmm actually read at www.netcraft.com that FreeBSD doesnt
>>>>> show uptimes longer than 497 days and the uptime information would come
>>>>> back to 0 (especially in recent releases)
>>>>> is this true or? isnt that a shame on us if we cant prove our uptimes? =)
>>>>
>>>> I'd be interested to see where you read that.  This is a limitation of
>>>> Linux kernels up to and including 2.2.x.  It doesn't apply to Linux
>>>> 2.4, and it never applied to FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> It is in the center area of their FAQ page. See
>>> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html
>>
>> Thanks.  I've sent them a correction.
>
> A cursory view of their own site should suffice:
>
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

A cursory view of their site would not find this URL.

Greg
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