From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 13 8:13:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br (perninha.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AEC37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:13:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 3081538CB8 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:13:23 -0300 (EST) Received: (qmail 10610 invoked by uid 0); 13 Sep 2001 15:11:04 -0000 Received: from duckman.distro.conectiva (root@10.0.17.2) by burns.conectiva with SMTP; 13 Sep 2001 15:11:04 -0000 Received: (from localhost user: 'riel', uid#500) by duckman.distro.conectiva with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:13:08 -0300 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:13:08 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , , Subject: RE: anonymous-ftp cracked In-Reply-To: <001501c13c0c$7d077780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: X-supervisor: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > nobody should be running an open FTP server that allows > uploading to anyone unless they are willing to take the time to > monitor it Some ftp daemons have the option to automatically email the admins every time a file gets uploaded. > 100MB is plenty of space for some jerk to upload his collection > of Sally SpreadEagle in all her silicon glory. If that happens > your going to find every bit of outbound bandwidth you have > completely saturated. That's what per-directory bandwidth limitations are for. If your /incoming needs to be usable for articles, you could just limit it to something like 2 kB/s per user. That's enough for legitimate articles, but for warez and porn it becomes effectively write-only. The only real problem is that people tend to upload the most worthless crap, so nothing interesting ever shows up in the 'harvesting' area. cheers, Rik -- IA64: a worthy successor to the i860. http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message