Maximum uptime 497 days?

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:40:53AM +0900, Rob wrote:
> Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This tickles something in the back of my memory.
> >
> >You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection,
> >Netcraft-style, are you?
> >
> >IIRC, that rolls over to 0 at 497 days.  But actual system uptime is
> >unaffected.
> 
> Yes, I read it first time on a Netcraft's webpage, then googled and found
> other reports as well. So this 497 limitation is only for Netscaft's way
> of measuring up-time?
> 
> Rob.

Yep.

It's a counter that rolls over in the TCP stack.

==ml

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