If this issue matters to you and you want the OS to fix it you are doing it wrong. ARP has some inherent "qualities" that are questionable. You can hack ARP all up but it won't ever fix it so instead one needs to embrace the issues and fix them where it makes sense.
This is not about an issue with the community it is about a misunderstanding that is blown way out of proportion with condescending language to boot. You are on the other hand suggesting that we are not paying attention to security issues. On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:48:05PM +0000, - Tethys wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: > > because it is. > > And therein lies some of the problem with the OpenBSD community. Don't > get me wrong, I like OpenBSD, I use it, and have donated to the > project. But here we have a user that has security concerns, and > rather than either admit there's a problem or point out why there's no > security hole, the answer given is just that it's secure "because it > is". That wouldn't fill me with confidence if I was looking to deploy > an OpenBSD system. I'm worried that some are getting complacent about > OpenBSD's security here... > > Maybe it's a troll. Maybe not. Can we afford to be turning away > potential users on the off chance? > > Tet > > -- > The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to > understand the exponential function -- Albert Bartlett
