Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:28:15 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for? Message-ID: <F3D8AF44B29D0E53A32BF45F@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <41387C64.2090304@daleco.biz> References: <8F6BD2D2-FD85-11D8-8EBC-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> <41387C64.2090304@daleco.biz>
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--On Friday, September 03, 2004 09:15:00 AM -0500 "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > Andy Holyer wrote: > >> The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), > > > You're a patient one, then ... > >> and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. >> "Oh", he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that >> generally >> some upgrade comes along that reqwuires a reboot, but I realized that I >> don't know how long a box would stay up in the maximum. So, come on, >> this should be fun, what's the biggest uptime you've ever had for a >> BSD box? >> > > For a publicly accessible host, around 150 days, which is probably too > much; > generally things start to feel "stale" by then, to me, and security > paranoia > grows in direct correlation to system uptime (which should reflect more on > my perceived knowledge of security and paranoia than on the Project's > software....) In the old days, we used to have boxes with uptimes in the 900 day range. Nowadays that would be insanity. As a security professional, I get irked that some of our boxes only get patched annually (because they only get rebooted annually). It's far too risky a proposition these days. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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