From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 13 11:35: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4C637B726 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:35:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA47944; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:34:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2DJZHp09873; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:35:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Pentchev Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:15:44 +0200." <20010313211544.B17733@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:35:17 +0100 Message-ID: <9871.984512117@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I know that adding a ``SITE MD5 filename'' command to our ftpd >is a *very* little step in a possibly wrong direction (this will >not automagically make all the ftp daemons on all the distsites >implement this command), but IMHO, it's a start. That's actually very clever thinking. You may want to make the command take two more arguments: SITE MD5 filename [offset [length]] That could be used to improve mirroring software a fair bit... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message