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Re: ftp and firewalling (never really works as it is supposed to)

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ftp and firewalling (never really works as it is supposed to)
From: Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 07:33:35 -0400
Joe Cooper wrote:
> Joseph Mack wrote:
>
> > 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.

> 'wget -c http://url' will solve that problem.

thanks

> 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...

well yes, true. 

I just thought it might be good to put a warning in the section
about ftp in the HOWTO that having ftp will (unneccessarily?) expose your
LVS (and other machines on your network) to security problems.

Joe


-- 
Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA


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