ProFTPD description ProFTPD - A full-featured and extremely fast FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
ProFTPD developed out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP server, and out of a real admiration for the Apache web server.
There are currently a very limited number of FTP servers running on Unix (or Unix-like) hosts. The most commonly used server is wu-ftpd. While wu-ftpd provides excellent performance and is generally a good product, it lacks numerous features found in newer Win32 FTP servers and has a poor security history.
Many people, including the developers who work on ProFTPD, have spent a great deal of time fixing bugs and hacking features into wu-ftpd. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that a complete redesign was necessary in order to implement the configurability and features desired.
ProFTPD is not a hack based on any other server, it's an independent source tree from the ground up. A number of well known and high traffic sites use ProFTPD.
What's New in This Release:
· NLS support, new mod_ban and mod_wrap2 modules, and enhanced mod_tls and mod_quotatab modules... [ read full changelog ]