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Re: Need help with iptables and ftp

From Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: Need help with iptables and ftp
Date 2018-08-30 16:15 +0100
Organization terraraq NNTP server
Message-ID <87va7rx4vb.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <pm62la$hhm$1@dont-email.me> <slrnpod497.u91.dan@xps-linux.djph.net> <op.zoiklrkha3w0dxdave@hodgins.homeip.net> <pqmk5f-nau.ln1@gangtai.home.grep.be> <slrnpofrhl.31ka.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid>

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Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
> On Thu, 2018-08-30, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> On 8/29/18 5:14 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
>>> As to the questions of why use ftp instead of something secure,
>>> there are many times where publicly shared files have no need for
>>> security, so ftp is the lowest overhead option for those transfers.
>>
>> No, HTTP is. FTP, with is two ports, incurs a high amount of overhead on
>> all middle boxes for no particularly good reason.
>>
>> FTP must die.
>
> Other possible points of view:
> - Middle boxes must die.
> - IPv4 must die.

All three. l-)

> (Not that I'm a big fan of FTP, especially not the "please dump your
> data on <addr:port>" part, or the cleartext auth part.)

It should have been killed off some time in the 1990s. Ridiculous
protocol.

-- 
https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-24 15:39 -0700
  Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-24 16:11 -0700
  Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-08-25 07:23 +0000
    Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-25 23:13 -0700
      Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-08-26 11:35 +0200
        Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 14:05 -0700
          Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-27 00:02 +0000
            Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 17:11 -0700
              Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-27 02:00 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 19:37 -0700
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-26 22:59 -0400
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 20:42 -0700
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-27 00:29 -0400
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 22:06 -0700
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-27 09:47 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-03 20:47 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-27 09:44 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-27 06:17 -0400
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-27 12:21 -0700
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-03 20:55 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> - 2018-08-27 11:22 -0400
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-27 12:18 -0700
          Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 17:44 -0700
      Re: Need help with iptables and ftp T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-26 17:43 -0700
  Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-28 11:28 +0000
    Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-08-29 05:38 +0000
      Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2018-08-29 10:13 +0300
      Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-29 09:52 +0000
        Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 12:13 +0000
          Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-29 12:27 +0000
            Re: Need help with iptables and ftp "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-29 11:14 -0400
              Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2018-08-29 23:15 +0200
              Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-08-30 10:35 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-08-30 13:16 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-30 16:15 +0100
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-08-30 18:42 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-31 00:31 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2018-08-31 05:49 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-08-31 12:48 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-31 22:11 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2018-09-01 09:56 +0300
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-01 16:14 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-04 18:00 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-04 20:36 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-05 10:25 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-05 20:30 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-06 00:03 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-01 15:56 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-09-01 19:18 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-09-04 18:01 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-31 00:25 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-30 20:34 -0400
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-31 09:25 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> - 2018-08-31 12:50 +0200
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-08-31 11:13 +0000
                Re: Need help with iptables and ftp Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2018-08-31 12:30 +0000

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