In article <199502252141.QAA12876@pain.lcs.mit.edu>,
Chris G Demetriou  <Chris_G_Demetriou@LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:
> > Whoa! Wasn't this disabled due to security reasons or some other severe
> > problem? I don't remember what the issue was now, but this caught my
> > attention and alarm bells started going off... please check the log
> > files and make sure this is really OK.
> 
> No, it wasn't disabled, ever, except by mistake.
> you can check the logs (in the mail archives) to verify this is correct.
> 
> At one point, a security hole relating to it was fixed.  that hole is
> no longer relevant, because arp is no longer a sgid binary.

Good. Well, I'd rather have it turn out to be nothing and make a fool of
myself than say nothing and have somebody get burned by it. I don't have
access to current source or the mail archives right this minute, which
is why I posted.