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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1101262142150.144@cust11794.lava.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:43:53 -0500 To: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:53 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: >=20 >> It's actually pretty well known and it is documented in several = places in plain >> sight. >=20 > Where? >=20 > A search for IPV6_V6ONLY in the FreeBSD Handbook yields nothing. = You'd think the brokenness would at least be mentioned in the handbook. >=20 > A similar search of the FreeBSD FAQ yields a bunch of hits but none = that really mention the RFC brokenness. >=20 > The only place where I've seen this behaviour mentioned in the past is = in bug reports. And the responses to those were that the non-compliant = behaviour was preferred but would/should be more clearly documented. = Years later, the documentation is still lacking. The FreeBSD releng/core community has consistently done odd things that = have caused them to lose favor in my mind, ranging from: a) Lack of support of serial console other than com1 without rebuilding = the kernel, boot blocks, etc. b) soliciting feedback in -RC releases and not fixing defects in the = -RELEASE, nor updating errata documents regarding defects they have = refused to fix c) Generally being arrogant and rude to the user community that may not = want to manage a large set of systems by "make buildworld" These are just a few of my unfavorite things regarding that community. = I have the things I like, but the things that I don't continue to = outweigh and feed into regret of using their systems. At least when I = freebsd-update now, I don't need to edit german ISDN rate files anymore, = but the fact that I had to in the first place is problematic to say the = least. - Jared REFERENCES: a: [26.6.5.2] = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-se= tup.html b: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D140712=
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