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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 02:05:41 -0700
From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?
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On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:50:21AM -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> 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?
> 
> - Jordan
> 
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	Yay! This is awesome. I guess in addition to ftp, the tools and
libraries you talk about would also include fetch, and other firewall
not so friendly things? (Would be nice if CVSup can fake FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
by doing '-P -' too).

-- Yan

P.S. - Everyone knows allowing connections from other side's port 20 is
silly since root can control src port. Hell, nmap even does port scan with
source port of 20 if you ask it to.


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