Multiple FTP servers with different characteristics on one server?

[Dan Pelleg]

Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com> writes:

> Greetings again. Under NetBSD, the inetd.conf file could have entries such as:
> 
> 10.0.0.1:ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -d -ll -c /etc/a
> 10.0.0.2:ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -d -ll -c /etc/b
> 
> Meaning that an FTP session request to 10.0.0.1 would use the configuration
> in /etc/a, while one to 10.0.0.2 would use the configuration in /etc/b.
> 
> 
> That doesn't work in FreeBSD 4.8: the first field is not recognized.
> 
> How can I get this functionality, just for FTP? I don't see anything in the
> inetd or ftpd man pages that indicate how this might work.

One (admittedly heavyweight) approach is to create a separate jail for each
daemon. See http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200212/ftpjail.html

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  Dan Pelleg