From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 26 16:16:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCBD14F0A for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 16:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA66601; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:16:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:16:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon 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? Wouldn't bother me a bit. I just set up a firewall and now need passive mode to do any FTPing to outside hosts. Passive shouldn't hurt people who don't have firewalls anyway, so go for it. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message