Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:22:59 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd Message-ID: <35525.984597779@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:59:18 %2B0100." <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net>
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In message <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net>, Adrian Chadd writes: >On Wed, Mar 14, 2001, David O'Brien wrote: >*OR*, someone can write a patch to add something like SITE MD5 to the >bsd ftpd, perhaps someone can then do the same to wu-ftpd and proftpd, >and then write a small RFC snippet explaining why its a good idea and >see if they can get it ratified. Then, you can have a single box at >yahoo handle 30,000 ports by simply doing MD5 checks, rather than 30,000 >ports by downloading each tarball. Adrian, That SITE MD5 would amount to innovation and progress. We don't do that in FreeBSD (any more). </IRONY> I think SITE MD5 should be added, so we can get some experience with it. If it isn't a good idea, we'll drop it again, if it is, we will propagate it. The only argument I've seen against was "Uhm, we want to loose our current ftpd in favour of XXX" for some value of XXX. I don't think it is important which version of ftpd we implement it in, so that is hardly an argument against. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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