geez! there are better technologies out here. SUre, if a technology works for 20 years, then go with it. However, there are loads faster ways (and a lot more secure too). Why not use bit torrent? Its fast, reliable and really only needs a half dozen seeds at various places across the net . THe problem with FTP is that you can have only so many connections before the bandwidth the host uses gets jammed. It also doesn't have very good resume functionality.
If the guys at OpenBSD decide to change technologies, thats their choice. Besides, I would rather be able to get the distribution and ports trees at my full internet connection, not some slower speed limited by old technology. So, when are the rest of you lot going to get with the 21st century? -eric On Mar 29, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Craig R. Skinner wrote: > On 2014-03-26 Wed 16:06 PM |, Craig R. Skinner wrote: >> On 2014-03-25 Tue 18:34 PM |, Theo de Raadt wrote: >>> >>> The 5.5 release will support FTP releases, but after that we are >>> disabling FTP and thus pushing people to use HTTP installs. >>> >>> In this day and age, it is somewhat irresponsible for us to put >>> people into a situation where they might install new FTP servers on >>> the internet. We've known it is a dangerous protocol for over 20 >>> years. Use a HTTP server to serve the sets, please. >>> >> >> Would these pages summarise it? >> >> http://cr.yp.to/ftp/security.html >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2577 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Security >> http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/ftp-vs-http.html >> > > Eventually, will base ftpd be removed? > > e.g: telnetd, rshd, uucpd, rmail,...
