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[src/trunk]: src/libexec/ftpd move IPv6 considerations into BUGS section
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/ac06651a65e2
branches: trunk
changeset: 486230:ac06651a65e2
user: itojun <itojun%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Tue May 16 00:59:12 2000 +0000
description:
move IPv6 considerations into BUGS section
diffstat:
libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diffs (39 lines):
diff -r 5f41fb727ef1 -r ac06651a65e2 libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8
--- a/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 Tue May 16 00:24:08 2000 +0000
+++ b/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.8 Tue May 16 00:59:12 2000 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: ftpd.8,v 1.50 2000/01/13 00:04:31 lukem Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: ftpd.8,v 1.51 2000/05/16 00:59:12 itojun Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997-2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -560,6 +560,17 @@
privileged port numbers.
It maintains an effective user id of the logged in user, reverting
to the super-user only when binding addresses to sockets.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+may have trouble handling connections from scoped IPv6 addresses, or
+IPv4 mapped addresses
+.Po
+IPv4 connection on
+.Dv AF_INET6
+socket
+.Pc .
+For the latter case, running two daemons,
+one for IPv4 and one for IPv6, will avoid the problem.
.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
.Cm RFC 959
provides no restrictions on the PORT command, and this can lead
@@ -577,11 +588,6 @@
.Em strongly
recommended.
.Pp
-When running on IPv6, connection from IPv4 mapped address
-.Pq IPv4 connection to IPv6 socket
-is not very stable.
-Please run two daemons, one for IPv4 and one for IPv6.
-.Pp
Don't create
.Pa ~ftp/tmp
if you don't want anonymous users to upload files there.
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