From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 28 23:13:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1114437BA5A for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1A4931C6B; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:13:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:13:35 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Nate Williams Cc: Homerton Webmaster , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP Servers Message-ID: <20000729021335.I5021@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <000701bff7ec$35ecb0f0$e2f799c3@corpex.net> <20000728153131.B5021@jade.chc-chimes.com> <200007290440.WAA25453@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200007290440.WAA25453@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:40:20PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:40:20PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > > FUD. > > Except for the fact that it's a fact, as has recently been shown. :( ... and proven to be a false alarm. I'd post a URL to the author's response but securityfocus.com's mailing list searches seem to work just about as well as www.freebsd.org's. > > proftpd is excellent. > > If security isn't important. Currently I know of know full-featured FTP > server that has source available and is freeware. The recent post to bugtraq was proven down by the proftpd author. Full featured is in the eye of the beholder, I've never seen a freeware server that has as many features (and easy configuration) as proftpd. If we're going to be wiseasses, I wouldn't reccomend FreeBSD or any other operating system ever, because once they had security holes. I'd worry more about active maintainership then about how many "security labs" have found that when you pass 1400 AAAAs to a arguement the server crashes. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message