Use the Force:
proftpd has many features and the ftp.ietf.org server turns on many of them. If
you look at http://www.proftpd.org/features.html it’s likely many are turned on
and used. Switching to something else
I suggest looking for volunteers:
(a) get some volunteers to replicate the current ftp.ietf.org service
configuration on chroot whose content isn’t a shared file system with the http
/ rsync servers, but rather it’s own copies populated by rsync or wget plus
some scripting to copy/move/link things into place.
(b) to host the results of (a), monitor/manage.
Outsourcing ftp to some (monitored) volunteers is very different from
discontinuing.
A hackathon project could get pretty far. Anyone using ftp.ietf.org is
motivated to help or test.
Larry
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