At 12:37 PM -0400 8/4/07, Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
On 7/30/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 8:31 PM +1000 7/30/07, David Timms wrote:
>Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
>> Even after this:
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>> UseReverseDNS off
>> IdentLookups off
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>> in /etc/proftpd.conf
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>> 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.
vsftpd simply rocks. Even wu-ftpd works fast. That proftpd seems to be a piece of sh*t!
Security is one thing. Annoying users is another. What good is it to have a super secure system when my users spend hours to download or upload files? I'm pretty sure vsftpd can be configure or patched.
Top posting corrected.
If Proftpd works for me and many others but you can't get it to
work, then the smart money is on your not knowing what you're doing,
rather than Proftpd being "a piece of sh*t".
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