Re: OpenBSD isn't good just because it's secure

Andrew Hewus Fresh <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Jun 2025 15:16:27 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.advocacy
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On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 04:31:41PM +0000, H. Hartzer wrote:
<SNIP>
> * `ftp` (analogous to `fetch` on FreeBSD`) won't use IPv6 unless
> you tell it to.

One way to do this is adding `family inet6 inet` to resolv.conf(5), in
which case the resolver will prefer v6.

    $ ftp https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/SHA256.sig 
    Trying 2a04:4e42:64::820...

> * FFS without softupdates is definitely not as fast.

I was just reading rsadowski's recent post
https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/ffs-optimizations-dirhash/