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FTP is awful. It was designed at a time where opening random ports back and forth was acceptable. Use ssh/rsync if you wanna just file transfer. Bittorent is t
by atmosx 12y ago
FTP is awful. It was designed at a time where opening random ports back and forth was acceptable. Use ssh/rsync if you wanna just file transfer.
Bittorent is trying solve another set of problems, not file transfers.
- cjg 12y agoI think you are agreeing with your parent post. He's pointing out that BitTorrent is better then FTP and the reason it is better is because of the decentralisation, thus addressing rdl's claim that his digital currency was better than BitCoin, but centralised.
- atmosx 12y agoI sure do!
- peterwwillis 12y agoEh. ssh/rsync is a hack, and not a very good one at that imho. scp is closer to being more useful, and rsync's native daemon/protocol is also good, though obviously not secure. FXSP is my favorite form of secure file transfer; accounts are independent from the system users, you have total control over the transfers, and they're between high-bandwidth bastions which the user doesn't need direct access to (not to mention the client doesn't have to stay connected to transfer the file[s]!)
- acqq 12y agoYou mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol ? So what's about "Enabling FXP support can make a server vulnerable to an exploit known as FTP bounce. As a result of this, FTP server software often has FXP disabled by default."
- peterwwillis 12y agoThat's.... dumb. It's not a vulnerability, it's a feature. The entire point of using FXP is to connect one server to another remote server. With FTP it was a "vulnerability" because people didn't expect users to send files or connect to random hosts, but with FXP it's the whole point of the protocol. (FTP bounce attacks have also been a solved issue for decades)
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