From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 09:10:33 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 117F737B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D519943F75 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h76GAF7Q060027; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:10:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3F312869.7020903@401.cx> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:10:17 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Kratzer References: <20030806122342.P58710@majakka.cksoft.de> In-Reply-To: <20030806122342.P58710@majakka.cksoft.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2k uptime ;-) 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, 06 Aug 2003 16:10:33 -0000 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