Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:46:19 +1000 (Australia/ACT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: geniusj@bluenugget.net (Jason DiCioccio) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <200104191246.WAA14999@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <004201c0c783$7fe71df0$4904a8c0@epylon.lan> from "Jason DiCioccio" at Apr 17, 2001 02:15:15 PM
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In some mail from Jason DiCioccio, sie said: > > From: "Darren Reed" <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> > Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs > > > > How long has your box been up ? How many changes to the system config > > have been made since then ? If you're not there, and it reboots, will > > it come up 100% functional ? Do your computers need some amount of > > preventative maintenance like internal cleaning to deal with dust build > > up, etc ? > > I don't know very many if any people that take their machines off the rack > just to clean dust out of the case. > > > How many times do unscheduled reboots result in hardware not > > spinning back up and at an inconevient time ? > > This would happen regardless of when/if you rebooted it. If you plan for these events (usually outside business hours) then it is generally less painful to deal with them. [...] > > None of my personal boxes have uptimes that ever exceed 6 months, even > my > > servers, but I have complete confidence in them rebooting and services > being > > restarted (modulo file system damage from an unclean shutdown). > > softupdates should take care of this, and as far as HD trouble, if you're > system is really that important then mirror your disks. Really ? Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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