Couldn't agree more! :) Andy Sent from my iPhone
> On 29 Mar 2014, at 09:10, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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,...
