3 Feb
2011
3 Feb
'11
4:46 p.m.
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:20:25 EST, Lamar Owen said:
FTP is a in essence a peer-to-peer protocol, as both ends initiate TCP streams. I know that's nitpicking, but it is true.
Well, it's official - the original end-to-end design principal of the Internet is dead, deceased, and buried. Henceforth, there will be Clients, and there will be Servers, and all nodes will be permanently classified as one or the other, with no changing or intermixing of status allowed.