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 :)