As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page, a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue. This means that OpenBSD now has two remote exploits in 10 years, as already reflected on the OpenBSD Homepage. Theo advises to to update the system (or to block IPv6 using PF as a workaround).
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Member since:2005-07-24
SEJeff,
I disagree. And I am very sincerely baffled by people's reactions to him.
I respect you. And I am sincerely interested in just *why* you find his posts to be trollish and/or uninformed.
I find his opinions to be as worthwhile as anyone's here in these forums.
Then again, Linux Freak that I am, I did defend NotParker, too. (Even when it hurt to do so!)
As I said in my previous post, we should be celebrating diversity.
Edited 2007-03-15 03:30
Member since:2005-08-18
"Then again, Linux Freak that I am, I did defend NotParker, too. (Even when it hurt to do so!)"
I know your pain 
"As I said in my previous post, we should be celebrating diversity."
Indeed we should but constantly spouting nonsense like "BSD is dead", "BSD is a traitor license", "BSD isn't the right solution for anything" etc and dragging every damn topic about BSD down to a pointless flamewar isn't diversity, it's off topic stupidity.
Member since:2005-11-05
BSD is good and still very much alive. I personally know several FreeBSD developers who couldn't be happier with porting DTrace and ZFS to FreeBSD. Saying FreeBSD is dead is a slight misnomer...
Saying that Linux is overpowering all other posix operating systems is true to an extent. It seems like high end unix (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, z/Os) are being hurt more than anything else by Linux. Linux is also hurting BSD marketshare ever since the Linux TCP/IP stack is as fast or faster than the FreeBSD one. (as of two or three years ago roughly).
Now, saying that Linux funds or builds core software that was written by BSD developers is VERY WRONG and probably angers developers like Theo De Raat who have worked so incredibly hard on things like OpenSSH. That is what pissed me off about his misinformed post, saying that Linux "Built and developed OpenSSH".
Give credit where credit is due. Linux kicks ass, but it wouldn't kick quite as much ass without some of the work done by BSD folks. Saying BSD is irrelevant is a good joke.
Also note I'm saying this from my Ubuntu work laptop.
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2005-11-05
I modded you up and very much disagree with him. Actually, he seems an awful lot like NotParker, but I don't think they are one and the same.
He has a few issues that he really passionately believes in and seems to either:
- Purposely troll and try to piss people off because he has nothing better to do
- Not fully understand what he is talking about.
I'm actually hoping it is the latter and not the former.