From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 7 19:56:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20886 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 19:56:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20879 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 19:56:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11554; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:24:45 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA05270; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:24:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980208142444.63329@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 14:24:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ben Pepa , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uploads with ftpd References: <19980208124650.28338@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Pepa on Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 07:47:00PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 February 1998 at 19:47:00 -0800, Ben Pepa wrote: > Does anyone see reason to have an /incoming directory for uploads? Not necessarily. > For the past 2 days I've seen my server slow down and I looked at the logs > and someone has been uploading commercial software from what looks to be > off a cd-rom and advertising it to their friends. At > one point, we had 60 ftp connections from people downloading it. > > I see no reason to have the incoming directory but most people seem to > have one. Will their be any problems if I were to delete it? No, unless you want to use it yourself. If you don't use it, you could also remove the anonymous ftp login. > If anyone has also had someone using their site for this illegal > use, what actions did you take (like e-mail their ISP or the > software companies etc..), if any? I had problems with spammers. I complained to the host ISP, and got no useful feedback. Check out http://www.lemis.com/spamalibi.html for one example. Good luck Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message