Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:37:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed), julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <200104171737.KAA56704@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20010417043130.F976@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Apr 17, 2001 04:31:30 am"
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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. Or perhaps this is a very talented system admin who values uptime and finds work arounds that don't envolve downing a system that do just as good, and sometimes better, than the vendor fix for the security issue. Security Fix != Reboot required. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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