From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 26 11:25:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF9015671 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:25:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990526182800.EGOX7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 06:28:00 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 06:25:34 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <16256.927715821@zippy.cdrom.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990526182800.EGOX7623210.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 May 99, at 3:50, 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? It would surely simplify some things. If you are using a firewall, you'll need passive mode. If you're not using a firewall, passive mode won't bother you one bit. For the argument that some ftp servers don't accept passive mode, I say it's a question of numbers: which default setting will satisfy the greatest number of people? which setting will reduce the number of questions "how do I do X"? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message