Subject: Re: OT: netcraft & uptimes
To: Emre Yildirim <emre@asper.org>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/25/2001 15:14:23
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Emre Yildirim wrote:
> Ah-hah! I was thinking of that. I was playing around with sysctl
> earlier today and changing net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 to 1 and then to 0
> again. But it really didn't make a difference to Netcraft. I guess
> it's not a big deal; if it makes uptimes harder to predict, it's a
> good thing.
I think if you're using a kernel that has the timestamp change in it,
uptime info isn't available regardless of the rfc1323 sysctl setting...
but if you have an older kernel, uptime is available if rfc1323=1 (which
is the default).
> (PS, am I seeing double, or are you also on the squirrelmail
> mailinglist? Or maybe my mail filters are messed up)
Yeah, I'm there too :)