Deprecating base system ftpd?

[Pete Wright]

On 4/6/21 5:32 PM, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 09:19:27AM +0100, Gerald de la Pascua wrote:
>> "Can I ask, for those who do enable it, why isn’t “sftp” acceptable (or
>> “scp”)?  Both provide a similar function, securely, which also works with a
> I just tried to sftp to ftp.freebsd.org. Connection refused.
>
> I can ftp (or ncftp) to ftp.freebsd.org and download whatever.
>
> What's the current, secure way to download FreeBSD releases?

https?
https://download.freebsd.org/
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/
etc.


-p

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Pete Wright
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