Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:10:44 -0700 (PDT) From: <kip@lyris.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Holtor <holtor@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's FTP Daemon Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9906152309390.20300-100000@luna> In-Reply-To: <19990615195447.B65028@nuxi.com>
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Based on the documentation what leads you to believe that the author of NcFTP does not understand RFC 931? Were you just being inflammatory? -Kip On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Hello, I run a moderatly sized ISP and as an > > > FTP daemon we use NcFTPD (www.ncftpd.com). > > > > I wouldn't, if I were you. I've never used ncftpd, but judging from > > ncftp, the author has absolutely no concept of how to properly > > implement the FTP protocol. > > I totally disagree. One of my 486DX2/66 boxes became a warez site over > a year ago (w/out my knowledge). The load from all the FTPs taking place > on this small box was incredible. 100 clients made the box totally > dead. I tried NcFTPd just for fun and found I could still get a login > and do things (admititly *very* slowly). I've been using NcFTPd since > then, esp. to prevent downloads from /incoming, and have had zero > problems with it. It is a very nice and configurable FTP daemon. > > I have also been using NcFTP since version 1.0, and maintain both the 1.x > and 3.x ports. I haven't used a stock FTP client for over ?7? years. So > what do you see as the problem with the author's knowledge of the FTP > protocol?? > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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