Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:13:44 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Summary: Tell portupgrade to use passive ftp Message-ID: <20070323131344.7f350a8d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200703222305.l2MN5pM3000691@anna.ana.com> References: <823E470A-93A8-4B6B-899A-E337FB75CABD@goldmark.org> <200703222305.l2MN5pM3000691@anna.ana.com>
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:05:51 -0700 (PDT) eps+ques0703@ana.com (Eric P. Scott) wrote: > [Jeffrey Goldberg] > >As an aside, I'd like to rant that there is no reason for ftp to > >exist anymore. Sure it is stateful in a way that HTTP isn't, but > >that isn't enough to justify its continued use. > > I have very good connectivity to several FTP-only mirror sites, > and relatively poor connectivity to any that serve up HTTP. None > of those servers are under my administrative control. I think the implication was that servers should move from FTP to HTTP, not that FTP-only mirrors should be removed from the lists. I think it's happening, if you look at bsd.sites.mk there's more HTTP than there was a year or two ago. It's definately good to have the option of HTTP because some ISPs treat FTP as a file-sharing protocol.
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