Subj : Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
To   : Time Warrior
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jun 21 2005 09:55 am

  Re: Re: Telgate/Mudgate Echo
  By: Time Warrior to Deuce on Tue Jun 21 2005 07:39 am

 >  >  > Well, being an external protocol, one would presume it's seperate and 
 >  >  > "talks to" the protocol to tell it "these are the files i want to uplo
 >  >  > tells it where to place the downloaded files :-)
 > 
 >  >  > ... and you said SyncTERM didn't support external protocols. Seems to 
 >  >  > ONE at least :-) As far as being faster than FTP or not, I wouldn't kn
 >  >  > first hand. Thats where the "i've heard" and "I haven't been following
 >  >  > closely" comes into play :-)
 > 
 >  >  > I also was unaware that NTP had any security holes. What is / are the 
 >  >  > if you don't mind me asking?
 > 
 >  > SyncTERM suppots NTP as well as it supports you using Internet Explorer f
 >  > browsing.  That is to say that one has nothing to do with the other.  The
 >  > client merely sits there and accepts any file sent to it.  This, of cours
 >  > the security hole.
 > 
 > Ah, the lack of authentication. No way of saying "Only this BBS Software or
 > that BBS Software has access to do this" ... any tom, dick or harry can
 > upload / download anything to / from anywhere.
 > 
 > I get it.

Apparently you don't. The NTP client accepts connections from *any host*. It
has nothing to do with which "software" has access to do what.

                                                  digital man

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