On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:27:04PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> why hasn't <whatever change was made
> to the ftp code> been reverted?

That's impractical. Fixing the bug will be easier.

> It seems to me that nobody is very
> interested in fixing this, as (I guess) sparc/sparc64 isn't a popular
> enough NAT platform for this to be biting more than a few people.

Looks more like a general big endian issue.

Most people don't use ftp proxy. In my experience it has always been
unreliable and it was much easier to tell all clients "use pasive".

Martin
P.S.: this does not mean that the bug should not be fixed, and Darren has
indicated that he was working on a fix.