Nice... I'm not sure I've got that beat, but very close. About 7 yrs ago (just after 2.3 came out, I believe) I was ordered to stand-up a few name servers on a secure network at my place of work. One of the systems was a Sparc Classic - a cakebox similar to an IPC, but SUN4M. It pretty-much ran named and syslogd, and that's about it. Everything else was disabled. All administration (which was very little btw, a few changes to zonefiles, etc) was done via the console, as it was physically located in a vault.
I swear, that baby was up for well over 2 yrs. Then one day, I was told that I had to move it approx 50 ft....who knows how long it could've lasted?? A On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:31:29PM -0400, Jason Crawford wrote: > Longest box I've had up was 745 days, 22 hours 36 minutes, OpenBSD 3.1 > with GENERIC kernel. It was a firewall for a mail server, that's all > it did, and the one requirement was as much uptime as possible, I > guess I succeeded there. It's long gone now, and not the best thing to > do (leave a box up for 2+ years) but it's nice to know OpenBSD can > stay up that long with absolutely no issues what-so-ever. > > On 5/17/05, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 May 2005 09:44:51 -0500, "Bill Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > >OpenBSD main 2.8 GENERIC#96 sparc > > > > > >9:54AM up 438 days, 7:03, 1 user, load averages: 0.31, 0.16, 0.10 > > > > Damn! You got me beat. :-) > > > > A few days ago I finally retired a 486-66MHz running OpenBSD 2.9 > > > > Yes, I know it's not a "good idea" (TM) to let a system languish like > > this but when done correctly, the bragging rights are a lot of fun. > > > > ITDude: "Our firewall is a quad 8GHz bone cruncher running checkpoint" > > Me: "really, well mine is an old 486 that I found in the trash..." > > > > JCR
