Re: The yearly FTP rant (Was: Re: Passive FTP and NAT/PAT with PIX and Serv-U)

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

> > It would appear that it is again time for my FTP rant, so I'm
> > redirecting my response back to the list.
>
> Actually, this is firewall-wizards' first FTP rant of the new millenium. :)
> ...and done with such style, too!!
>
> It would be a fine sign of progress if vendors stopped shipping FTP
> and replaced it with scp/ssh. Someone ought to write a version of scp
> that has exactly the same interface as FTP (but none of the network
> protocol) and then we could invisibly swap it out and have done with
> this most horrible bodge of a protocol...


And likewise with the *r commands and telnet with ssh2.  Course, them
darned admins that want to snoop over all that traffic crossing the
perimeter outwards might have a bit of a headache...


Thanks,


Ron DuFresne
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