On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 07:28, Christian Mayer wrote: > Norman Vine wrote: > > > > we don't need rsync all we need is SMART ftp in a thread > > > > Please don't use FTP! > > FTP is a horrible protocol. As firewall admin you've got the problem > that FTP decides dynamically what port it uses for data transfer. So you > have to open quite a few ports.
In pasv mode (settable from the client) it uses only one ... > > Dunno if that's the problem of the NAT part, but I can't reliably use > FTP from my normal computer as packets get filterd at my > router/firewall. This is already quite bad (e.g. for the SuSE auto > update) so we should do it better. And we should help to get rid of FTP. 2.4 Linux kernels don't seem to have any trouble with it... > > CU, > Christian > > PS: FTP also transferes passwords in plaintext to make things even > worse... And http doesn't? > > -- > The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
