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

[Yeak Nai Siew <yeak@www.net.my>]

Hi Imran, sorry for the confusing words. I was using '5 minutes' 
because some monitoring software is configured to be so. I read the URL 
you gave about netcraft but I am still not convinced that it can 
reliably tell you exactly when is a system rebooted. FYI, I notice that 
the default installation of Apache Web Server for Red Hat Linux is 
rebooted EVERY DAY just to do log rotation.


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 10:25  AM, Imran William Smith wrote:

> 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
> > >
> > > Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
> > > MIMOS Open Source        : http://opensource.mimos.my
> > >
> > >
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>
> Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
> MIMOS Open Source        : http://opensource.mimos.my
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