At 8:31 PM +1000 7/30/07, David Timms wrote: >Excalibur Xcalibur wrote: >> Even after this: >> >> UseReverseDNS off >> IdentLookups off >> >> >> in /etc/proftpd.conf >> >> it still sucks! I've never seen such a sluggish ftp server. >Perhaps you would like to try vsftpd. I have not had such problems with it. One complaint I have against vsftpd (and most ftp servers) is that they allow unlimited password cracking attempts. Proftpd can be configured to limit the attempts per connection. I have set ours to 1 attempt and protect ftp with the same iptables recent module rules that protect ssh. As ftp (and sometimes ssh) often have many file transfers in a row, each in separate connections, I use pam_recent to clean the recent module's list. On our server proftpd is fast. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
