Re: ISC will likely be shutting down FTP access to ftp.isc.org soon (https will remain)

Hi all,
In addition to my previous message:

B/ If actsyncd is used with the following actsync.cfg parameters:
    host=ftp.isc.org
   ftppath=/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz
 Then there is something to change.  Here are some possibilities.
 1/ The fastest would be to keep FTP but against another server which would go on providing up to date active files on FTP.  I don't know whether there are.  If you know one, just update host and ftppath accordingly.

The good news is that the Free University of Berlin still has an FTP server, and they now get the newsgroups information from the same source as ftp.isc.org takes theirs (that is to say control-archive maintained by Russ).  So, if and when ftp.isc.org closes as an FTP server, changing actsync.cfg to:
    host=ftp.fu-berlin.de
    ftppath=/doc/usenet/config/active.gz
will go on synchronizing the data using the FTP protocol.
Thanks, Heiko and Russ!

2/ You can install a version of INN generated after 2024-10-07 (INN 2.7.3, snapshot, etc.).  Then just update your installation and change the above parameters in actsync.cfg to:
    host=downloads.isc.org
   path=/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz
   protocol=https

Switching to HTTPS is also still possible of course.
Note that we don't know how much time the FTP protocol will remain active in the server of the Free University of Berlin.  There's no lifetime guarantee.
At least actsyncd can now deal with both FTP and HTTPS so it will be ready in case FTP is also shut down on other servers.  By the time it happens, I hope the new version will be wide-spread.
--
Julien ÉLIE
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   condition que les deux points soient bien en face l'un de l'autre. »
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