From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Welte Subject: Re: [MAINTENANCE] Shutting down FTP services at netfilter.org Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 19:16:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20200603171621.GC717800@nataraja> References: <20200603113712.GA24918@salvia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200603113712.GA24918@salvia> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Hi Pablo, On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 01:37:12PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > So netfilter.org will also be shutting down FTP services by > June 12th 2020. I always find that somewhat sad, as with HTTP there is no real convenient way to get directory listings in a standardized / parseable format. But of course I understand the rationale and I obviously respect your decision in that matter. > As an alternative, you can still reach the entire netfilter.org > software repository through HTTP at this new location: > > https://netfilter.org/pub/ Maybe make http://ftp.netfilter.org/ an alias to it? I think the important part would be some way to conveniently obtain a full clone, e.g. by rsync. This way both public and private mirrors can exist in an efficient way, without having to resort to 'wget -r' or related hacks, which then only use file size as an indication if a file might have changed, ... Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)