I run Zope's FTP listener on the standard FTP port (port 21) on my Linux servers. I need it there because some of the authors for my site are behind packet-filter firewalls that only allow their outbound FTP traffic to target servers on the standard port. It works well, except that I'm getting occasionally hammered by FTP scanners that connect as anonymous and start CWD'ing to varous directories (/cgi-bin, /home, /etc, etc.) looking for security holes. There's no security problem, because those locations don't exist, and anyway Zope denies access to them by anonymous. But it does busy my system a bit, especially when I get three or four anonymous connections all looping through 100+ possible directories with CWD. Is it possible to disable anonymous connections to the Zope FTP listener entirely? Just refuse the connections? I still might get DOSed, but it's less likely then having them actually connect. - Jim
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Jim Nicholson