Shutting down public FTP services
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All public-facing postgresql.org FTP services will be shut down on
August 15, 2017. The affected services are:
ftp://ftp.postgresql.org
This decision is driven by the following considerations:
* FTP servers have no support for caching or acceleration.
* Most software implementations have stagnated and are awkward to use
and configure.
* Usage of the FTP servers is pretty low.
* The protocol is inefficient and requires adding awkward kludges to
firewalls and load-balancing daemons.
* It is another step in our efforts to move to HTTPS (and TLS for
non-HTTP services).
The DNS name ftp.postgresql.org will remain the same and should just be
accessed using HTTPS instead:
https://ftp.postgresql.org
If you have concerns or questions regarding this change, please contact
the pginfra team at sysadmins@postgresql.org as soon as possible.
Thanks,
PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Infrastructure Team
