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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 22:27:54 -0400
From:      Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?
Message-ID:  <19990528222754.A6792@homer.talcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990528020541.D8308@best.com>; from Jan B. Koum  on Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:05:41AM -0700
References:  <16256.927715821@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990528020541.D8308@best.com>

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> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:50:21AM -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> 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?


It would be nice if the various ports that support ftp URLs have their
configuration files updated to use passive ftp before current becomes
a release.



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