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Fedora 40 firms up for release

Fedora 40 firms up for release

Posted Apr 18, 2024 10:21 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: Fedora 40 firms up for release by vadim
Parent article: Fedora 40 firms up for release

FTP is fine - I know because I wrote a whole FTP server from scratch. The original mode where the FTP server would connect back to the client (active mode) was a bad idea in hindsight, but every FTP client and server now defaults to passive mode.

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Fedora 40 firms up for release

Posted Apr 18, 2024 15:39 UTC (Thu) by vadim (subscriber, #35271) [Link]

Passive mode still leaves problems server-side.

For instance for a server behind NAT, you need a kernel module to rewrite packets. This is ugly, makes firewalling harder, doesn't work with SSL, and is a serious performance impact on fast networks because it can require very extensive packet inspection and rewriting.


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