On Jan 27, 2011, at 2:53 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> It's actually pretty well known and it is documented in several places in >> plain >> sight. > > Where? > > A search for IPV6_V6ONLY in the FreeBSD Handbook yields nothing. You'd think > the brokenness would at least be mentioned in the handbook. > > A similar search of the FreeBSD FAQ yields a bunch of hits but none that > really mention the RFC brokenness. > > 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-setup.html b: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140712
