On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:00 am, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi all, > Any reccomendations what to install (or avoid) on my firewall, > from 4.4 /usr/ports/ftp/ to be a proxy ftpd server ? > > My Background: > - I'm not looking for high performance, > (it's not a big company, just my home site with some internal hosts). > - I will have the usual security concerns with the imminent arrival > of a flat rate permanent DSL connection :-) > - /usr/libexec/ftpd does not (at least did not) support proxy requests. > - I have apache installed on my firewall & am using FTP_PROXY=http://gate > but often remote ports distfile ftpd hosts refuse to serve me, > perhaps because my apache is asking remote server on port 80, not ftp > port. >
Give /usr/ports/www/squid a try, it can proxy HTTP and FTP. http://www.squid-cache.org/ Hope this helps, but if I where doing it I would use NAT and block any incoming from the outside. That way you can use other net apps too. -Casey Z -- This E-mail message was created with Open Source Software. Using: FreeBSD, http://www.freebsd.org KDE's KMail, http://www.kde.org Vist these sites and support O.S.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
