🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <97be0p$buu$3@news.panix.com>, snorwood@redballoon.net (Scott 
Norwood) writes...
> 
> In article <8T9m6.4026$S25.60081@typhoon.sonic.net>,
> John Navas  <spamfilter@navasgrp.dublin.ca.us> wrote:
> >[POSTED TO comp.dcom.modems.cable; PLEASE REPLY THERE]
> >
> >In <YSXl6.1657$Tj1.1236856@nntp1.onemain.com>, "mirayge"
> ><mi_rayge@notyahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Yes there are. Many people run FTP services on their machines and allow
> >>anonymous logins. They want to share programs and files. How do you find
> >>these servers? By scanning a range of IP numbers for open port 21.
> >
> >No you don't (assuming you have legitimate motives).  You look for
> >published invitations.  There are well-established mechanisms for this.
> 
> Would a DNS entry for a host named "ftp" be sufficient to assume that
> a particular machine is running an ftp daemon and exists (at least in
> part) for the purpose of making various files available to the public?
> Or do you believe that the invitation would have to be more explicit
> than that (such as a Usenet post that states "check out my cool FTP
> archive" or something like that)?
> 
> I'm genuinely interested in what you believe would be an appropriate
> invitation.


Not having anonymous access enabled should give you a
clue.  Or was that too easy?

 

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