Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:13:45 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Enkhyl <enkhyl@hayseed.net>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyleft/BSD Copyright FTP Proxy Software Message-ID: <9809162213.ZM14227@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Enkhyl <enkhyl@hayseed.net> "Re: Copyleft/BSD Copyright FTP Proxy Software" (Sep 16, 9:49pm) References: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809161847330.23514-100000@hillbilly.hayseed.net>
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On Sep 16, 9:49pm, Enkhyl (possibly) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Chris Dillon wrote: > > The Squid Proxy and Object Cache handles both HTTP and FTP proxy and > > caching. It exists in the FreeBSD ports collection and more info can be > > found at http://squid.nlanr.net. It is in my experience a very good > > solution, and apparently very popular. > > This is fine if you don't mind massive buffer overflow potential. Squid is > not what I would call a security-minded piece of software. > > Just my $0.02 from perusing the source. The 1.2 version, albeit less stable than the 1.1 version, is improved in this respect, such as via replacing sprintf with snprintf. I'm planning on compiling any FTP proxy with libparanoia or similar in any event. -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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