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Re: FTP Service Discontinuance Under Consideration; Input Requested

Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> Fri, 10 April 2015 04:14 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
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Subject: Re: FTP Service Discontinuance Under Consideration; Input Requested
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Use the Force:


proftpd has many features and the ftp.ietf.org server turns on many of them. If you look at http://www.proftpd.org/features.html it’s likely many are turned on and used. Switching to something else

I suggest looking for volunteers:

(a) get some volunteers to replicate the current ftp.ietf.org service configuration on  chroot whose content isn’t a shared file system with the http / rsync servers, but rather it’s own copies populated by rsync or wget plus some scripting to copy/move/link things into place.
(b) to host the results of (a), monitor/manage.

Outsourcing ftp to some (monitored) volunteers is very different from discontinuing. 

A hackathon project could get pretty far.  Anyone using ftp.ietf.org is motivated to help or test.


Larry
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