Subject: Re: Tell the world your uptimes..
To: Alan C. Horn <ahorn@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 07/06/1999 19:38:09
	This is now mentioned on the 'contrib' page:

	http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/index.html#uptimes

		David/absolute

	"Its just another ultimate battle of good against evil..."

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Alan C. Horn wrote:

> 
> (Replies set to netbsd-advocacy, but I wanted to get a slightly wider
> audience so it's hitting current-users as well, apologies if this annoys
> anyone)
> 
> (DISCLAIMER - I have no affiliation with this website or tool, I just
> thought it was cool, and a good way of promoting the stability and uptime
> of NetBSD)
> 
> 'upclient' - It's in pkgsrc (net/upclient)
> 
>   Upclient is a program that keeps track of your server
>   uptime, and lets you compare it with the uptime of other
>   (similar) hosts. It consists of two parts, a client- and a
>   serverpart. The client runs on your server and sends the
>   uptime every few minutes to the server. The server
>   collects all data in a table on this site. 
> 
> Go take a look at the homepage - http://uptime.hexon.cx/
> 
> Basically, it might be a good thing if a bunch of NetBSD boxen with high
> uptimes suddenly appeared on there to move us up the league table. We're 
> doing well, but I'm fairly certain we could do better. Surely there are
> people out there with higher uptimes than 473 days who want to shout about
> it :)
> 
> Usual caveats regarding firewalls apply, your mileage may vary, talk to 
> your firewall admin if the packets don't get through, etc...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
> 
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