On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:45 PM, joshua stein <j...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> at the end of the installation, the mirror you chose (in your case, > your local ftp server) is sent back to ftp.openbsd.org so that it > will be given to you again the next time, assuming your ip is the > same. > ... because your vmware installations are presumably all coming from the > same ip address, you keep receiving your local ftp server as a > default. > Ah, this definitely makes sense. It is a handy little feature but I am a little surprised the privacy advocates out there in OpenBSD-land didn't cry foul about reporting information back to the mothership like that. (I couldn't find any inside MARC anyway when searching for installer-related posts). Thanks for taking the time, I appreciate the effort. Matt
