Re: patch ftp-proxy, proposal

2010-01-12 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:38:32AM +0100, Tiery DENYS wrote: | On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Bob Beck b...@ualberta.ca wrote: | Yes I prefer waiting here instead of sending any response on ident port. | (silent fw) How can you claim 'silent fw' if it was the source of an ftp connection ? | I

Re: patch ftp-proxy, proposal

2010-01-12 Thread Tiery DENYS
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul de Weerd we...@weirdnet.nl wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:38:32AM +0100, Tiery DENYS wrote: | On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Bob Beck b...@ualberta.ca wrote: | Yes I prefer waiting here instead of sending any response on ident port. | (silent fw)

Re: patch ftp-proxy, proposal

2010-01-12 Thread Henning Brauer
* Tiery DENYS tiery.de...@gmail.com [2010-01-12 09:47]: A higher value is stupid, because you then end up waiting forever for connections to these anyway.. Are you gonna sit there for 45 seconds before you connect? no, of course not, you're gonna thing it's screwed. Yes I prefer waiting

Re: patch ftp-proxy, proposal

2010-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
ex: - There are some public ftp servers missconfigurated who use ident protocol and wait 30 seconds on ident port before sending banner. With the default connect_timeout value, it is not possible to connect to theses servers with fw filtering ident port. With a higher value, it will succeed

patch ftp-proxy, proposal

2010-01-07 Thread Tiery DENYS
Hi, I would like to propose a patch for ftp-proxy. This patch implement an option concerning specific timeout (connect_timeout). It add an option for setting connect_timeout variable while starting ftp-proxy (this variable is currently set to 30 in code). Setting this variable to another value