Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Wed Apr 22 03:39:57 UTC 2009

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:57:31 -0400, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org>  
wrote:
>> FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?
...
> A depressingly large number of people use FTP.  Attempts to move them  
> onto
> something less insane are fruitless.  Even when the tools support it (and
> plenty of "web design" tools don't appear to do anything other than FTP),
> "we've always done it that way and it works fine and if we have to change
> something we'll move to another hosting company rather than click a
> different button in our program".

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:07:08 -0400, Daniel Senie <dts at senie.com> wrote:
> You are out of touch. FTP is used by nearly EVERY web hosting provider  
> for updates of web sites. Anonymous FTP is not used.

These are not random, anonymous ftp connections.  These are people who  
login with a username and password, and are therefore, identifiable; and  
even then, it's for access to manage their own site.  A single IP address  
pointing to a single server (or farm of servers) will, and DOES, work just  
fine.  I know, because I've done it for ~15 years.

When I ask "who", I'm asking about a paid for, external service -- just  
like web hosting.  No one calls up 1-800-Host-My-Crap and asks for "an FTP  
server".

Bottom line... if your justification for a /19 is "FTP servers", you are  
fully justified in laughing at them as you hang up the phone.