Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:10:31 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng Message-ID: <20131103141031.5f55e8c2@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <5274EFD6.6030504@FreeBSD.org> References: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> <CACeEFf4Hif3WHufC=i08gbkXb6oC=4sxbyvO4FQnTkRWA7ZwnA@mail.gmail.com> <5272D0DE.4080209@FreeBSD.org> <CACeEFf79RZskefh6RzBhxkHuAWnGjPWRDr_JBTRUWcGH4ZNVTg@mail.gmail.com> <CAOjFWZ7BbdXYi3gQtTvCa3jqTmjOC-tt5bwV1GR8Jf=tOanT%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <52745B7F.2080608@vangyzen.net> <5274B947.7030607@FreeBSD.org> <1680682c-dc77-4ee3-8e59-ee7356f307a3@email.android.com> <5274D90D.8040508@FreeBSD.org> <20131102113750.GG2951@home.opsec.eu> <5274EFD6.6030504@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:28:06 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Which is not always true, especially in heavily firewalled > > environments. > > I feel no obligation to do anything to encourage people that > deliberately break the DNS. They've made their bed, and now they have > to lie in it. In other words, one more reason to choose Linux. You can only afford to say "no soup for you" if you're the only soup-nazi in town. I think there's an important distinction between broken dns and local dns. If someone wants to provide controlled web access through a web cache without giving general internet access then I don't see why they shouldn't. This doesn't affect admins running servers, it affect people trying to install FreeBSD on the locked-down part of the network - typically the desktop machines of developers. It also seems to be a fundamentally bad idea for a client that knows it's connected to a proxy to be choosing the server in the first place.
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