Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:35:24 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Host ID. Message-ID: <20070407203524.GM90410@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20070407203130.GA8667@xor.obsecurity.org> 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> <20070407203130.GA8667@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:31:30PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. >=20 > Presumably on systems that have a real host id we can just use that :) I thought that, but then Pawwel said he'd like it to work the same across all systems; quite what that means is where the rub lies :) Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGACMocfcwTS3JF8RAgkgAJ9SnM1INAQmfaq/MpDjFXUfJINSVgCeMIy+ LVxYdBy4VY6pat4oRbK/t6o= =ikos -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Z/kiM2A+9acXa48/--
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