Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:00:54 -0700 From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca> To: Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com> Cc: freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating base system ftpd? Message-ID: <e83ffd46c7ffb2d8@orthanc.ca> In-Reply-To: <38DE0531-1572-43DD-BA53-ECB3EF52FA3F@verweg.com> References: <CAPyFy2AbP2X339zbemZ9Y8edjNKdyygnR9mH48Q78nxwDtOBAg@mail.gmail.com> <38DE0531-1572-43DD-BA53-ECB3EF52FA3F@verweg.com>
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Ruben van Staveren via freebsd-stable writes: > It is time to deprecate ftp altogether, and any other protocols that = > embed protocol information in layer 7, thus hurting any #IPv6 migration = > and deployment technology (SIIT-DC e.g). > ftp, a protocol not using TLS protection [...] You seem to be a couple of decades behind the times. RFC4217 (Securing FTP with TLS) was published on 2005. IPv6 suopport dates back to 1998 in RFC 2428 (FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs). It would be nice if the base system ftpd grew TLS support. OpenBSD has had this for years. --lyndon
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