Re: [ossig] 2 Malaysian organisations among 50 best uptimes

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>]

Hi Yeak.  Where did you hear about this '5 minute' rule?  From reading
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html , I thought Netcraft query
the OS of the webserver (or caching proxy server, whatever answers
the HTTP request) directly to see what uptime the OS itself reports. 
Aside:
If anybody ever visits UK, Netcraft is based in Bath, which is a lovely
small town with ~2000 years of history, which started off as a Roman
spa town - well worth a visit.

Imran



Yeak Nai Siew wrote:

> The uptime does not mean it is never rebooted. The probe from netcraft 
> is not every minutes. The exact timing is up to them. If your server 
> is restarted within 5 minutes, it is considered as up.
>
>
> On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 09:21  AM, Imran William Smith wrote:
>
> > Personally, I'm a bit suspicious of machines with very high uptimes 
> > (more than
> > a few months) - since some security fixes (especially kernel related) 
> > require a
> > reboot, it might imply they don't take good care to apply patches.
> > You could argue that the best possible OS could dynamically load in 
> > all security
> > updates and would never require a reboot :)
> >
> >
> > Imran
> >
> > Uwe Dippel wrote:
> >
> > > At least as of today, we can say 'boleh' and 'bravo' to two Malaysian
> > > organisations with the highest uptimes of hosting networks worldwide 
> > > !!:
> > >
> > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/isp.avg.html
> > >
> > > (MMU and Mimos)
> > > Though, if you click on the respective netblock owner, you get a clear
> > > picture to whom the uptimes ought be be attributed. To Open Source OSes
> > > and Apache, which - as everyone knows - is Open Source as well.
> > >
> > > Uwe
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Imran William Smith
Project Manager, Open Source Development, 
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

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