On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, joe wrote: > Res wrote: > > >So long as you dont want to do anything more than serve files from a > >normal public solo ftp, if you want to rate limit per domain or run Virt's > >vstfp is aload of shite, we removed it and went back to proftpd. testing > >on our network showed vsftpd as no more faster than it, secure? this has > >been done to death in other threads, just because it says its secure means > >nothing, all software is secure.......untill the first exploit is found. > > > We were running proftpd and like it - but as it > turns out, vsftpd can do all the same tricks - Sure, but if you run 17 virtual ftp servers on one box thats 17 config files, pfft, thats goes backwards, not forwards, C.S.R's can not debug a customers conenction as theres no ftpwho, rate limiting some domains in only some directories or files but not others only is 4 line statement in proftpd. > Look at security records for wu-ftpd, proftpd > and vsftpd, and tell me again than vsftpd is > not more secure - Sorry, cant say ive seen any security issues affecting proftpd that havnt affected vsftpd, the last biggie goin round proftpd was not affected neither was vsftpd, wu-ftpd is a total new ball game it is insecure,,no arguments there :) > >Sendmail is rather secure and rock stable, if you know what your doing, > >even by default its pretty good these days, if it was as bad as you make > >out why does it run on the vast majority of MTA's in the world.. > >IOW, postfix is YOUR choice. vsftpd is YOUR choice, doesnt mean its > >better, we had postfix on our secondary MTA, we never found it as good as > >sendmail and replaced it with sendmail, but thats OUR choice from our > >experience. > > > > Thank you for your opinion, but that is no substitute > for a careful analysis of the facts. I have been known True, the facts here on the hardware we run and for what purposes we need sendmail beats postfix. > as "Mr Sendmail" for years, but have recently started As have I :) > switching over to postfix - my own testing shows that > postfix stands up much better under load than does > sendmail, and not only can it do all the tricks sendmail I found the opposite. > Trying to set up sitewide spam filtering on a relay > host without having to create local unix accounts > for each user is what finally pushed me over the Not quite sure what you mean by this as its extremely vague comment, but yes we do filter on a relay box with only root and a smtp user, unless I read what you said wrong, you sure as hell don't have to create them on every box. -- -Res lns01-wick-bne> ipfirewall addb reject all from aol.com to 0
