Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:31:30 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Host ID. Message-ID: <20070407203130.GA8667@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070407202846.GK90410@submonkey.net> References: <20070407120656.GD63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <cb5206420704070607j7afe5349r180151dac1ec3e92@mail.gmail.com> <20070407145154.GG63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <cb5206420704070808t183dd708v489564d27c0d34dc@mail.gmail.com> <e47373630704070821u224f03d7q505e01a2e967f777@mail.gmail.com> <20070407202846.GK90410@submonkey.net>
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--G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:28:46PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:21:25PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: > > >There's even a business [1] selling software to change > > >Solaris hostid for ?49. Should I squat freebsdhostid.com? :) > > > > > >[1] http://www.solarishostid.com/ > >=20 > > For free, you generally can fake it by rewriting the gethostid > > function along with the use > > of ${LD_PRELOAD}; or use DTrace if using a Solaris 10 system :) >=20 > While thinking along these lines, what will we do on sparc64 systems, > which will generally print a hostid on the console at boot time which > will be significantly different to the one that we'll be presenting > within FreeBSD on those systems? >=20 > I suspect that this is just a documentation issue, but it would be > somewhat confusing. Presumably on systems that have a real host id we can just use that :) Kris --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGF/+hWry0BWjoQKURAh5JAJ0c89ISDeOHnaNpJDZAFzT9d8WdhgCgie3N 0vh19ch34MidqcPshhow00Q= =v/CU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--
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