From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 26 14:20:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02129 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02121 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id OAA19480; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:19:48 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:19:45 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Michael Dillon cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ellipse - a new anonymous ftp server implementation (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Michael, cdrom.com actually runs a custom version of ftp daemon hacked^H^H^H^H^H written by David Greenman: 530-(220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-2.0.12 Tue Mar 24 ^^^^ Why bother with something untested (new, alpha and secure on one line?) I would also consider it a spam to nanog list, since I am confused as to what ftp daemons have to do with routers and internet backbones? But inet-access would be much more appropriate (if they allow such announcements at all) Cheers, -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Michael Dillon wrote: > >Anyone tried this? crdom.com??? > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 22:37:14 +0900 (JST) >From: ikuo@ellipse.org >To: nanog@merit.edu >Subject: Ellipse - a new anonymous ftp server implementation > >Hi all, > >We are very grad to announce an alpha release of the `Ellipse' >which is a new anonymous ftp server implementation. > >A few Ellipse processes (one is the master and others are >pre-forked processes) can handle a lot of ftp clients at a >same time. So, it requires less memory or process resources >to serve a large number of ftp sessions. > >Ellipse is designed to serve ANONYMOUS ftp services only. >So it is VERY SECURE. For example, it calls chroot system >call and leaves from any privilege mode before accepting >connections. > >IPv6 extensions, such as LPRT, LPSV are also supported. We >tested IPv6 extensions with INRIA and Hydrangea. > >For more details, see > > http://www.ellipse.org/ > >or README in a distribution. The newest distribution can >be found in: > > ftp://ftp.ellipse.org/pub/net/ellipse > >Best regards, > >Ikuo Nakagawa > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message