From owner-freebsd-net Tue Apr 17 4:31:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E9F37B422; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3HBVUK09190; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:31:30 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Darren Reed Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: non-random IP IDs Message-ID: <20010417043130.F976@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3ADBB93B.3C9DC3DE@elischer.org> <200104171128.VAA08430@caligula.anu.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104171128.VAA08430@caligula.anu.edu.au>; from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:28:25PM +1000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Darren Reed [010417 04:29] wrote: > In some mail from Julian Elischer, sie said: > > > > there is a site that calculates server uptime from these numbers. > > All the leading machines are freeBSD. When you do this it will > > no-longer be able to track us :-( > > IMHO, extraordinarily large uptimes are nothing to be proud of and > say nothing about the quality of software. > > I'd almost go so far as to say uptimes greater than 1 year indicate > that the system administration practises need review. Agreed. I've yet to hear about any seriously deployed system go without security advisories for over a year. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message