-----Original Message-----
From: William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: cool uptime :)
>One of the things that I always wonder about these enormous uptimes in the
>modern era is how they contend with the variety of networking bugs that
>have been discovered in the modern era. Such an old system should be
>vulnerable to everything from teardrop on up plus an assortment of minor
>filesystem problems. So why is it still alive?
A firewall helps.
And since you can patch damn near everything except the kernel itself
without rebooting, if you only fix the things that are causing you a problem
you can stay up forever.
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