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<div>At 12:37 PM -0400 8/4/07, Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On 7/30/07,<b> Tony Nelson</b> <<a
href="mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com"
>tonynelson@georgeanelson.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote>At 8:31 PM +1000 7/30/07, David Timms wrote:<br>
>Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:<br>
>> Even after this:<br>
>><br>
>> UseReverseDNS off<br>
>> IdentLookups off<br>
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>><br>
>> in /etc/proftpd.conf<br>
>><br>
>> it still sucks! I've never seen such a sluggish ftp
server.</blockquote>
<blockquote>>Perhaps you would like to try vsftpd. I have not had
such problems with it.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>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.<br>
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<blockquote>On our server proftpd is fast.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>vsftpd simply rocks. Even wu-ftpd works
fast. That proftpd seems to be a piece of sh*t!<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>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.</blockquote>
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<div>Top posting corrected.</div>
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<div>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".</div>
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