Re: ftp-proxy without inetd

["i.t" <i.t@ithum.de>]

msg Montag 07 Juli 2003 20:03 by Ron Rosson:
> With some goofing around this holiday weekend I was helping my oldest
> teenager with some things and we noticed that his windows machines where
> unable to ftp. ( Damn thjings do not support PASSV ). So went and looked at
> the man page and fouond that ftp-proxy still needs inetd to run.
>
> My firewall is a soekris running OpenBSD ( http://www.opensoekris.com) and
> the opensoekris needs no or has no inetd installed.
>
> So are there any plans to add this functionality to ftp-proxy.. I did find
> the tar.gz of what someone has done on the marc mailing list  archives
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104387606807393&w=2)  but
> would like something in tree if possible.

I'd also like to see a change; when a linux machine in the network starts an 
apt-get via 'normal' ftp (export ftp_proxy=ftp://obsd.machine:21/ and the rdr 
rule in pf.conf) instead usind squid,
inetd 'overloads', load average more than 12, and the machine seems to hang;
it's better than to reboot than to wait 15 to 30 minutes until inetd is back 
to normality; this happens sometimes on my OBSD gateway (generally with 
inetd) and I'm not happy with this behavior

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