On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:54 PM, new_guy <byte8bits@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across
> an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The
> only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I
> thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBSD box for that amount of time
> or longer without getting hacked and without doing much to it." Just
> wondering what's the longest OpenBSD uptime some folks on misc have seen?
>
> Thanks
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>

Hmm, yeah sure I'll bite. The longest I've seen that I still have a
record of (screen shot of the uptime command) was a machine I
installed as a firewall for a very important mail server. Please note,
I was not in charge of maintaining it, otherwise it would not have
reached this uptime, but it was over two years. As far as I could tell
(I got onto the box once in a blue moon) it was not hacked, but seeing
as all it did was run pf, and only allowed ssh from 2 IP addresses
(both I controlled, and were firewalled themselves), that doesn't seem
extraordinary. I will type out the uptime/uname command as in the
picture:

$ uptime
10:54AM  up 745 days, 22:36, 0 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.08
$ uname -a
OpenBSD bassfishing 3.1 GENERIC#0 i386
$

As far as uptimes I don't have records of, a friend of mine has worked
on old systems that weren't rebooted because they were afraid it would
not boot back up again. One of them pre-internet, I believe it did
some financial stuff. However, no proof there.

-- 
Jason