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    Finally seeing FTP be killed off by major player..

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    • johnpoz
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator last edited by

      https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170425
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      Shutting down public FTP services

      April 25th, 2017

      After many years of serving the needs of our users, and some more of declining usage in favor of better options, all public-facing debian.org FTP services will be shut down on November 1, 2017. These are:

      ftp://ftp.debian.org
          ftp://security.debian.org

      This decision is driven by the following considerations:

      FTP servers have no support for caching or acceleration.
          Most software implementations have stagnated and are awkward to use and configure.
          Usage of the FTP servers is pretty low as our own installer has not offered FTP as a way to access mirrors for over ten years.
          The protocol is inefficient and requires adding awkward kludges to firewalls and load-balancing daemons.
      –--------

      Lets finally kill off this antiquated POS ;)

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      • jimp
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate last edited by

        It's progress!

        Wake me when they remove the FTP client though.  :D

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