On 26 May 1999, "Jordan K. Hubbard" proclaimed:
> Unless I hear unanimous fierce outcry against it, I'm strongly
> considering making FTP_PASSIVE_MODE obsolete by virtue of being the
> default for all tools/libraries which currently examine it.
> FTP_ACTIVE_MODE will be the new flag for toggling the previous
> behavior.
>
> Given the state of the Internet today, I think this is purely a
> sensible change in defaults. Comments?
Please do. However, a suitable notice must be plastered somewhere
suitable (RELNOTES?). It might also be worth noting in ipfw(8).
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
"Value of 2 may go down as well as up"
-- FORTRAN programmers manual
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