What FTP software are you running? Shouldn't most FTP servers (on most platforms?) support something like symlinks or equivalent? Could a symlink or equivalent solution for FTP, and a redirect solution for HTTP be an alternative? Hm, tricky buissness you have :)
Aron On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:48:07 +0100, Igor Zlatkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Miller wrote: > > Getting even more OT... > > Do you really need FTP? I've been trying to ween away from it. > > The speed advantage seems to have become minimal, and it's trickier to > > secure. > > Our sysadmins insist on configuring the ftp server with reverse dns checks, > > with the consequence that every couple of months (just long enough to > > forget the logic :>) > > I get reports of people with flakey ISP setups not able to connect... > > Off topic or not, here is the answer. :) > > My former life without FTP was rewarded with a bill for the overtraffic. > I beamed, thinking half of the world came to visit me. The HTTP logs > have shaken me awake. I found that few idiots out there have nothing > better to do than to download one and the same, unchanged file three > times a second, in a massive parallelism, obviously automated. Tcpdump > said, even firewalled out, they kept drumming before the gate for days. > FTP was a lot easier to control that sort of traffic with, so I started > offering the files through FTP only. > > This is not an issue any longer, because my provider has recently raised > the bandwidth and the all-inclusive traffic by tenfold. Now the idiots > cannot cause overtraffic before I spot them and beautify my firewall > rules with their addresses. But many honest people link to the FTP > resources now. > > Ciao, > Igor > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml > _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
