Longest Uptime?

[Marco Peereboom]

Now *that* is nuts!

Not upgrading IOS every other day that is...

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:25:13AM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote:

> Okai,
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> here's my $0.02 on the subject:
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> http://systemnet.no/ios-uptime.jpg
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> /Pete
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> On 29 Oct 2008, at 18:49, guilherme m. schroeder wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Uptimes sucks. Here's the biggest i've ever seen in the company i  
>> work:
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>> [operator@optg998 ~]$ uname -a
>> SunOS optg998 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-
>> cEngine
>> [operator@optg998 ~]$ uptime
>>  3:40pm  up 2639 day(s), 13:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.07,  
>> 0.06
>> [operator@optg998 ~]$ date
>> Wed Oct 29 15:45:24 BRST 2008
>> [operator@optg998 ~]$ psrinfo -v
>> Status of processor 0 as of: 10/29/08 15:41:07
>>  Processor has been on-line since 08/08/01 00:50:54.
>>  The sparc processor operates at 440 MHz,
>>        and has a sparc floating point processor.
>> [operator@optg998 ~]$ dmesg | tail -5
>> SUNW,hme0: Using External Transceiver
>> SUNW,hme0: 100 Mbps half-duplex Link Up
>> dump on /dev/md/dsk/d50 size 2042608K
>> SUNW,hme0: Using External Transceiver
>> SUNW,hme0: full-duplex Link Up
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>> Ok it's not OpenBSD, blame on me. But what i liked is that this
>> machine is working for 2639 days and it stills blink green leds. The
>> harddisk never gave up too. No errors on dmesg.
>> It's a Netra T1 machine, running our internal DNS server. I think
>> we'll replace it when it dies ;)
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>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Gilles Chehade <gilles@...>  
>> wrote:
>>> new_guy a icrit :
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>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
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>>> It is not the size of your uptime that matters, it is what you do  
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> Gilles

[Laurent CARON-4]

Marco Peereboom wrote:
> Now *that* is nuts!
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> Not upgrading IOS every other day that is...
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What about having the greatest downtime ?

Means running windows ?

Nope, sorry, just not having the computer plugged ...

Ain't that great ? ;)

[Lori Barfield]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, new_guy <byte8bits@...> 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

[new_guy]

Lori Barfield wrote:

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

Yes, I agree. But I have seen systems that old online in the year 2008. The latest one was running on 15 year old Sun hardware. SunOS 2.6. It had been hacked. I found it because it was infected with stacheldracht... remember that? One of the first DDOS tools. And it was phoning home to a handler (they did not refer to them as 'controllers' back in 1999). You'd be surprised... especially in higher-ed IT environments. Research professors with Nobel Peace prizes in science have dusty, old research labs full of systems like this... and yes, they are online :)