From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 2: 4:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-153.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A508E37B40C for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0702D66D46; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 02:04:47 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: Kris Kennaway , Rob Andrews , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD a good choice for high performance webservers? Message-ID: <20010928020447.A8606@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <60164745040.20010926174838@buz.ch> <20010926095640.C86198@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010926123312.A51520@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> <187172118202.20010926195131@buz.ch> <20010926220622.A92357@xor.obsecurity.org> <70310952606.20010928102525@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <70310952606.20010928102525@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:25:25AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:25:25AM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello Kris, >=20 > Thursday, September 27, 2001, 7:06:22 AM, you wrote: > >> would happen if someone found a remote root hole in OpenBSD? > >> Exactly.=20 > > I'm not sure what you're trying to say here..OpenBSD has had plenty > > of remote root holes lately. >=20 > "Four years without a remote hole in the default install!" >=20 > but apparently none in the default install which is the only thing > they really care for to make the above statement. Be careful..the version they were shipping a year and a half ago (OpenBSD 2.7?) had a remote root exploit in the default install (telnetd). The "four years" number is only true by a very roundabout interpretation -- it certainly doesn't mean what you expect it to. Kris --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7tD0vWry0BWjoQKURApCpAJ9tXmBi94HAMeNLN+OMM/+5WyZZQACg+0l2 c6r4dEtWgS2dNTt2TMtuMDU= =5pA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message