On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:54:03AM -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > 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? > > > do any apps check for FTP_ACTIVE_MODE? > are we going to apply patches to each app to check for this > and maintains those patches over the course of time? > > seems to be a change without commensurate benefit.....it will > confuse some, suprise others and doesnt seem to offer > substantial benefit.
It has the (large!) benefit of NATed[1] and firewalled users getting a working setup at once. I'm in favour. [1] Those using natd/ppp -alias will get this already, due to a protocol translator in libalias. Alas, this does not combine with firewalls on the NAT machine unless somebody choose to activate the code I added to libalias to punch 'holes' in ipfw. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
