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From: Thomas Schulz on 19 Dec 2006 13:47 I have been upgrading the ftp daemon on some of our older Solaris systems and decided to use wu-ftpd because that is what Sun chose to use on Solaris 9 and later. Everything went well on Solaris 2.5.1 & Solaris 7, but I ran into trouble on Solaris 8. Solaris 8 tries to use a tcp6 port and the wu-ftpd available from www.wu-ftpd.org does not support ipv6. The error messages are: 500 Illegal PORT Command 425 Can't build data connection: Address family not supported by protocol family The wu-ftpd faq says to change the 'tcp6' to 'tcp' in inetd.conf, but I don't like that solution. The Sun modified wu-ftpd on Solaris 9 works fine with a tcp6 port, so the ipv6 support for wu-ftpd must exist somewhere. In fact, copying the in.ftpd file from a Solaris 9 system to a Solaris 8 system seems to work just fine, but I am not sure that I like that either. Does anyone know where to get the ipv6 enabled source for wu-ftpd, or have any other ideas? I looked around the Open Solaris web site, but could not find anything there. -- Tom Schulz schulz(a)adi.com
From: Thomas Schulz on 19 Dec 2006 16:09 In article <vilain-924924.11554719122006(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >In article <em9c4g$lu0$1(a)bluegill.adi.com>, > schulz(a)adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: > >> I have been upgrading the ftp daemon on some of our older Solaris systems >> and decided to use wu-ftpd because that is what Sun chose to use on >> Solaris 9 and later. Everything went well on Solaris 2.5.1 & Solaris 7, >> but I ran into trouble on Solaris 8. Solaris 8 tries to use a tcp6 port >> and the wu-ftpd available from www.wu-ftpd.org does not support ipv6. >> The error messages are: >> 500 Illegal PORT Command >> 425 Can't build data connection: Address family not supported by protocol >> family >> >> The wu-ftpd faq says to change the 'tcp6' to 'tcp' in inetd.conf, but I >> don't like that solution. The Sun modified wu-ftpd on Solaris 9 works >> fine with a tcp6 port, so the ipv6 support for wu-ftpd must exist somewhere. >> In fact, copying the in.ftpd file from a Solaris 9 system to a Solaris 8 >> system seems to work just fine, but I am not sure that I like that either. >> >> Does anyone know where to get the ipv6 enabled source for wu-ftpd, or have >> any other ideas? I looked around the Open Solaris web site, but could not >> find anything there. > >Don't know if your understanding of this is accurate. AFAIK, wuftp was >added as part of the freeware stuff in Solaris 8. I think the in.ftpd >delivered on Solaris 8 was Sun's, not wuftpd. I see that I was not clear on what I did. I got the source for wu-ftpd from www.wu-ftpd.org and built it for each of the platforms. The in.ftpd delivered on Solaris 8 is indeed Sun's. >I recall making just this change in inetd.conf to continue using tpc v4. >Unless you're going to an all v6 net, I don't think you don't gain >anything by running ftp in v6 mode. We have no plans at the current time to switch to ipv6, but I don't like replacing an in.ftpd (Sun's) that will work with ipv6 with one (wu-ftpd) that will not. I also do not like Sun's ftp server. >As an aside, is wuftpd being actively developed? The development of wu-ftpd seems to have come to complete halt in 2003. However, Sun somehow managed to produce an ipv6 version of wu-ftpd for Solaris 9. >-- >DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... -- Tom Schulz schulz(a)adi.com
From: Thomas Schulz on 20 Dec 2006 14:09 In article <vilain-E1EF7A.16082219122006(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >In article <em9keo$7cf$1(a)bluegill.adi.com>, > schulz(a)adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: > >> In article <vilain-924924.11554719122006(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, >> Michael Vilain <vilain(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >> >In article <em9c4g$lu0$1(a)bluegill.adi.com>, >> > schulz(a)adi.com (Thomas Schulz) wrote: >> > >> >> I have been upgrading the ftp daemon on some of our older Solaris systems >> >> and decided to use wu-ftpd because that is what Sun chose to use on >> >> Solaris 9 and later. Everything went well on Solaris 2.5.1 & Solaris 7, >> >> but I ran into trouble on Solaris 8. Solaris 8 tries to use a tcp6 port >> >> and the wu-ftpd available from www.wu-ftpd.org does not support ipv6. >> >> The error messages are: >> >> 500 Illegal PORT Command >> >> 425 Can't build data connection: Address family not supported by protocol >> >> family >> >> >> >> The wu-ftpd faq says to change the 'tcp6' to 'tcp' in inetd.conf, but I >> >> don't like that solution. The Sun modified wu-ftpd on Solaris 9 works >> >> fine with a tcp6 port, so the ipv6 support for wu-ftpd must exist >> >> somewhere. >> >> In fact, copying the in.ftpd file from a Solaris 9 system to a Solaris 8 >> >> system seems to work just fine, but I am not sure that I like that either. >> >> >> >> Does anyone know where to get the ipv6 enabled source for wu-ftpd, or have >> >> any other ideas? I looked around the Open Solaris web site, but could not >> >> find anything there. >> > >> >Don't know if your understanding of this is accurate. AFAIK, wuftp was >> >added as part of the freeware stuff in Solaris 8. I think the in.ftpd >> >delivered on Solaris 8 was Sun's, not wuftpd. >> >> I see that I was not clear on what I did. I got the source for wu-ftpd >> from www.wu-ftpd.org and built it for each of the platforms. The in.ftpd >> delivered on Solaris 8 is indeed Sun's. >> >> >I recall making just this change in inetd.conf to continue using tpc v4. >> >Unless you're going to an all v6 net, I don't think you don't gain >> >anything by running ftp in v6 mode. >> >> We have no plans at the current time to switch to ipv6, but I don't like >> replacing an in.ftpd (Sun's) that will work with ipv6 with one (wu-ftpd) >> that will not. I also do not like Sun's ftp server. >> >> >As an aside, is wuftpd being actively developed? >> >> The development of wu-ftpd seems to have come to complete halt in 2003. >> However, Sun somehow managed to produce an ipv6 version of wu-ftpd >> for Solaris 9. > >Since you don't plan on doing anything with IPV6, what's the big whoop >about not enabling it in inetd.conf? It won't run setup as ipv6 anyway. >Am I missing something here? We have no current plans to use ipv6, but we may want to use it in the future. I am just trying to avoid any future surprises. >And when I ran wuftpd on 2.5.1, 2.6, and Solaris 7 boxes, I didn't >"replace" Sun's in.ftpd. I just setup wuftpd to run instead, keeping >renamed copies of the configuration files. Why can't you do the same, >with wuftpd configured to run ipv4? Well, 'replace' in that wu-ftpd runs instead of Sun's in.ftpd. I can certainly change the setting in /etc/inetd.conf, I am just trying not to. >Or you could use one of the other ftpd that's still being developed: > >http://www.ncftpd.com/ >http://www.proftpd.org/ >http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd >http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsftpd/?topic_id=89 > >I think you're stuck with using ipv4. And again, what is this "Sun's >version of wuftpd that runs ipv6". I don't know if there is such a >thing accept in your imagination. I could be wrong, though. I'm sure >some will jump right in and tell me so... The wu-ftpd that comes with Solaris 9 works with ipv6 (or at least it runs with 'tcp6' in /etc/inetd.conf). In fact, if I copy /usr/sbin/in.ftpd from a Solaris 9 machine to a Solaris 8 machine I seem to get a working wu-ftpd that works with 'tcp6' in /etc/inetd.conf. It makes me a little nervous to run a Solaris 9 binary on a Solaris 8 system, however. >-- >DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... -- Tom Schulz schulz(a)adi.com
From: Oscar del Rio on 20 Dec 2006 17:51 Thomas Schulz wrote: > The wu-ftpd that comes with Solaris 9 works with ipv6 (or at least it > runs with 'tcp6' in /etc/inetd.conf). check the source code in opensolaris to see what changes they made.
From: Thomas Schulz on 21 Dec 2006 09:45
In article <emceor$i4t$1(a)news.mie>, Oscar del Rio <delrio(a)mie.utoronto.ca> wrote: >Thomas Schulz wrote: > >> The wu-ftpd that comes with Solaris 9 works with ipv6 (or at least it >> runs with 'tcp6' in /etc/inetd.conf). > >check the source code in opensolaris to see what changes they made. I explored the opensolaris web site looking for the source to wu-ftpd, but could not find it. I could find some information indicating that there was a package for in.ftpd, but I could find nothing else. Perhaps I should be asking how to find the source for in.ftpd on the opensolaris web site. -- Tom Schulz schulz(a)adi.com |