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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:07:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Uptime of a system
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, David Schultz wrote:

> Thus spake Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>:
> > > > hub# uptime
> > > >  8:09PM  up 5790 days,  1:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > > Now just run an HTTP server.  Netcraft will hate you. ;-)
> > Netcraft doesn't run "uptime" on his machine... Userland hacks don't
> > count.
>
> Right... the real hack would be to futz with the TCP timestamp
> counter.  But it's a stupid one-liner; you're not supposed to
> argue its technical merits!  :P

If you want to be really funny, jump the value every day at midnight by 24
hours or so.  Then when netcraft graphs it over time, it will look really
funny. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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