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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:35:17 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd 
Message-ID:  <9871.984512117@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:15:44 %2B0200." <20010313211544.B17733@ringworld.oblivion.bg> 

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>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...

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