Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:10:17 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: Christian Kratzer <ck@cksoft.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2k uptime ;-) Message-ID: <3F312869.7020903@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030806122342.P58710@majakka.cksoft.de> References: <20030806122342.P58710@majakka.cksoft.de>
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Christian Kratzer wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I recently revisited a customers site at which I had setup a FreeBSD
> based lan router some time back. Yep it is still up and running with the
> same ipfw rules I had setup back then. And yes it is still their main
> gateway to the world.
>
> ck@xxxxxxx: {7} uname -a
> FreeBSD xxxxxxx.xxx.de 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 9 18:53:29 CET 1998 ck@xxxxxxx.xxx.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/XXXXXXX i386
> ck@xxxxxxx: {8} uptime
> 12:18PM up 2003 days, 16:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
> ck@xxxxxxx: {9}
>
> This just HAD to be posted to advocacy ;-)
>
> The tough part about this is that it would have a about year more uptime if
> it weren't for that kernel rebuild and reboot in 1998 to include drivers for
> their newly installed 100mbit ethernet cards that were not included in the
> original kernel. ;-(
>
> This beats the bsd/os based web server on top of uptime.netcraft.com by
> about 250 days I should say.
>
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
>
> Greetings
> Christian Kratzer
> CK Software GmbH
Install a minimum apache server on it and ask Netcraft to check
what its running.
It will take first place on the list. :)
The downside is that you will show the world that you are running
a very old release that probably have loads of bugs and exploits.
--
R
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