On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across
> an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The
> only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I
> thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBSD box for that amount of time
> or longer without getting hacked and without doing much to it." Just
> wondering what's the longest OpenBSD uptime some folks on misc have seen?

SunOS 2.6 was released in 1999.  if someone can really run a 9-yr-old
release of *anything* exposed to the internet without "doing much to it,"
and still avoid compromise, that would be a pretty good trick.

...lori

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