From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 28 19:24:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.talcom.net (unknown [209.5.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF06D1538F for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 19:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leo@homer.talcom.net) Received: (from leo@localhost) by homer.talcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id WAA07697 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 May 1999 22:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:27:54 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP passive mode - a new default? Message-ID: <19990528222754.A6792@homer.talcom.net> References: <16256.927715821@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990528020541.D8308@best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990528020541.D8308@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum on Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:05:41AM -0700 X-No-Archive: Yes X-Organization: Not very, no. X-Wife: Forgotten but not gone. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:50:21AM -0700, "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 be nice if the various ports that support ftp URLs have their configuration files updated to use passive ftp before current becomes a release. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message