On 2011-12-27, I wrote: > There were some DoS protections added which limit the number of > results that can be returned from a glob, it is to do with total > filename lengths iirc. I see this a lot in package snapshot
If you're looking for this, the limits are in src/libc/gen/glob.c; the first limit you're likely to hit with ftpd is GLOB_STAT; I'm not sure what a good value would be but 128 is clearly too small. > directories. If you want something good that will handle more > files, try pureftpd (it's in ports). note _pure_ftpd (not proftpd, which is not in ports for good reasons regularly documented at your favourite vulnerability database).