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Joseph Mack wrote:
Roberto Nibali wrote:
FTP is a bitch and totally broken by design.
I see that ftp is hard to make secure.
Do you recommend that people not use ftp and say instead use http for LVSs
that are delivering files?
I don't like http for file download. At home (28k phone ppp link)
if I do anything else over the line (like load a webpage) while doing
a download, the download stalls and doesn't start up again. This is
pain as a 10M file takes 2hrs and I have to start again.
Joe
FWIW:
'wget -c http://url' will solve that problem.
sftp is now available as part of the openssh packages I believe, but
requires clients to /have/ a very recent version of openssh--probably
not what folks want if they have enough clients to justify an LVS
cluster. I don't think LVS really has anything to do with whether
someone should use ftp for security reasons or not. Securing ftp is a
separate issue from LVS. IMHO, anyway...
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Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
http://www.swelltech.com
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