From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 26 7:57:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE82E14D0C for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 07:57:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25282; Wed, 26 May 1999 10:56:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:51:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? In-Reply-To: <16256.927715821@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly > considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the > default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it. > FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the previous > behavior. > > Given the state of the Internet today, I think this is purely a > sensible change in defaults. Comments? Yay! -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message