4 Development history
Service levels:
| Service protocol |
Code level
OS/2 |
Code level
Windows NT |
Comments |
| TELNETd |
Not available |
Not available |
Some kind of console service is planned, but nothing is
done with it yet as I'm not sure how I want to make this. |
| FTPd |
Gamma |
Alpha |
FTPd has been around for a while and is considered stable.
Protocol to be at non-beta level for v1. |
| SMTPd |
Beta |
Alpha |
SMTPd can only receive mail for the local mailboxes.
Protocol to be at non-beta level for v1. |
| POP3d |
Beta |
Alpha |
POP3d works and most features are implemented.
Protocol to be at non-beta level for v1. |
| IMAP4d |
Not available |
Not available |
IMAP4 service is planned for inclusion in v2. |
| HTTPd |
In consideration |
In consideration |
I'm currently evaluating the idea of also including a HTTPd
in IPS. |
1999/04/02 22:15 InetPowerServer v0.81Beta1
What's new (system wide):
Mod: [SERVICES] section is removed from main.cfg and the same info
is no put into the [GLOBAL] setting ServiceSections.
Mod: .stat files in user directory moved into new stats directory and
renamed from username.stat to usr.username. File format is unchanged so
you can move and rename you old files. New setting in main.cfg points to
this directory.
Mod: GroupDirectory is no longer used, not that it ever was.
Mod: New setting in [GLOBAL] in main.cfg named GroupsDefined is added
to list all defined groups.
Mod: [GROUP] section in the user files got the same threatment as the
[SERVICES] section in main.cfg. They are no in one setting called MemberOfGroups.
Mod: IPS "Console" changed again. No more command line, just a few
key combos available.
What's new (FTPd service):
Fix: Listing of drive letters fixed. (Some drives was not listed always).
Fix: (Windows version only) CD .., CDUP should now work. There are
still a problem CD .. down to drive list directory. You can CD / to get
there.
What's new (SMTPd service):
What's new (POP3d service):
What's new (TELNETd service):
1999/03/28 InetPowerServer v0.80Beta2
What's new (system wide):
Fix: Logfiles didn't record date changes.
New: Console screen changed, input line moved to bottom, and an extra
status window added which shows protocol, main tid and number of connected
clients for each service. If you have more than 20 services running only
the first 20 will be shown.
New: New console command; ver; added to show running IPS version.
Mod: Shutdown and Restart commands will delay the action until there
are no more connections or they are executed twice.
Fix: Win32 version should hopefully be useable again.
What's new (FTPd service):
Fix: CWD failed for root of real disks sometimes.
Mod: SITE RADM RESTART and SITE RADM SHUTDOWN changed to match the
system wide operation.
New: FTP data written to [STAT] section of user files.
New: High speed of retrive and send are now stored, so are the last
IP the user connected from.
Fix: Various bugs in the example RexxHook scripts fixed.
What's new (SMTPd service):
What's new (POP3d service):
Fix: Timeout not working correctly.
What's new (TELNETd service):
1998/12/05 InetPowerServer v0.80Beta1
What's new (system wide):
Mod: IPS made easier to kill from tasklist or by closing the IPS window.
This is done because of the high number of bad TCP/IP stack available and
some of them can hang IPS.
What's new (FTPd service):
Fix: Some drives would not show in directory
listing and/or was not CD-able.
Mod: A/B drives also scanned for listing.
Mod: SITE RADM LIST changed to SITE
RADM LIST SOCKETS.
New: SITE RADM LIST SERVICES added.
Mod: SITE ADMIN commands changed to
SITE RADM command and output changed to be easier read by computers for
all SITE RADM commands.
Mod: All SITE RADM commands need at
least 4 characters specified.
Mod: SITE EWHO (in standard rxOnSite script)
removed. Internal WHO command improved to display additional info for administrative
users. Layout changed for normal users also.
Mod: Returning 550 response when trying
to RETR a directory. Was 450 before.
Fix: Huge number of minor bugs fixed.
What's new (SMTPd service):
New: Config variables added, see example
main.cfg file.
New: Server will receive and queue message
which should be forwarded.
New: Message id inserted into "Received:" line.
What's new (POP3d service):
What's new (TELNETd service):
1998/11/01 InetPowerServer v0.75Beta2
What's new (system wide):
Mod: All paths which should refer to
the local file system are now correctly specified with backslash. All other
paths are specified using foreward slash. WARNING: This mean you have to
convert you [ACCESS] section to use backslashes instead of foreward slashes.
Mod: scr\* directory divided into multiple
subdirectories by default, this means that the old standard FTPd scripts
are moved into scr\ftpd\*.
New: All system read only variables
are now available from within SMTPd and POP3d also. See updated list.
Mod: Corrected some errors in the documentation
files.
New: Written about the user files in
the setup documentation file.
New: Service parameter ClientAddress to control access from different client
addresses.
What's new (FTPd service):
New: FEAT command implemented (rfc2389).
New: SITE RADM LIST command to allow
monitor type apps to view users with activity.
Mod: Security related; 5 seconds delay
added if there is a password mismatch.
Mod: Security related; PORT command
to IP other than clients will no long accept ports below 1024.
Mod: SITE ADMIN EXEC (in standard rxOnSite
script) changed to SITE EXEC for compability with other FTP servers. Command
is also improved to do the work in the current directory.
Mod: SITE ADMIN WHO (in standard rxOnSite
script) changed to SITE EWHO.
New: DisableEA and DisableDircount service
variables added.'
Mod: Removed popups for empty drives.
You don't need to have AUTOFAIL=YES in CONFIG.SYS anymore.
Fix: Incorrect LogFlag for RMD.
Fix: For some reason ABOR was disabled.
It is not enabled again.
Fix: MDTM command could crash IPS.
What's new (SMTPd service):
Fix: SMTPd would have when receiving
a message.
Fix: SMTPd could hang when two messages
was received at the exact same 1000th of a second. I did not run into this,
just found it in my code.
New: "Received:" line added to header
of messages.
Fix: rxOnConnect now working properly.
New: Proper logging added.
New: RexxHook rxOnCommand implemented fully.
What's new (POP3d service):
New: Commands DELE, LIST, NOOP, PASS,
QUIT, RETR, RSET, STAT, TOP, USER, UIDL and APOP implemented fully.
New: RexxHooks rxOnCommand, rxOnConnect
and rxOnUser implemented fully.
New: APOP need a new setting; APOPSecret in the user files to work. This
should contain an uncryptet version of the APOP secret (password). If no
APOPSecret is found the service will disable the APOP command for this
user. The implementation of APOP may change later.
What's new (TELNETd service):
Fix: Connection to TELNETd crashed IPS.
1998/10/01 15:30 InetPowerServer v0.75Beta1
What's new (system wide):
What's new (FTPd service):
Fix: Some bugs introduced in v0.70b2
regarding SITE command.
Fix: Listing directories with dates
outside the 1-12 range crashed IPS.
New: ABOR command implemented.
New: Directories checked for read-only
attributes before allowing remove.
New: APPE command implemented.
New: Listing directories on first level
(eg. drive letters) will not show correct date (if available) and space
used on the drive.
Mod: MDTM now returns seconds as well.
Mod: Some previously unknown bug was found and fixed during the Windows
NT porting process.
What's new (SMTPd service):
1998/04/22 02:30 InetPowerServer v0.70Beta2
What's new (system wide):
Mod: Tried with various compiler/linker
optimizing but that mostly lead to strange bugs on Warp 3 machines.
Fix: Bug in exception handler.
Mod: Major changes on variable implementation,
please check the documentation and included example files. All variable
names has changed and some new are added. The method to access variables
are no longer %varname% but %(varname).
Fix: Serious bug leading to many unused sockets.
What's new (FTPd service):
Mod: Method of opening data connection
changed slightly.
Fix: Error handling of bad data connections
improved.
New: Resume on STOR supported.
Fix: Remove of directories was not possible.
New: REIN command implemented.
Fix: ETA on SITE WHO not always correct,
could even kill IPS.
New: Default local data port finally used.
New: Added support for a "-" in front
of the password to avoid multiple-line responses.
New: rxOnCommand RexxHook called before
processing of all commands, this Hook can return 0 or a modified command
line.
Mod: All RexxHooks lost their *Par setting
in the group config file. Also, the Cmd at the end is removed.
New: MinFreeSpace service variable added.
Number of free MBytes needed to accept new files.
Fix: Login was accepted even if OnUser
rejected it. Only some badly written ftp clients would allow this.
Fix: Lots of bugs is fixed which I forgot
to write down.
New: Better example message files and RexxHooks, thanks to Mario Gaucher
for all the help.
What's new (SMTPd service):
Fix: Local mail delivery completely
bugged.
Fix: Not sending "good bye" response
after QUIT command.
Fix: Some minor bugs fixed, still only alpha/preview code.
1998/03/27 21:00 InetPowerServer v0.70Beta1
What's new:
Mod: Log format changed again.
Fix: REST log entry missing parameter.
Fix: Log entry from "startips.cmd" incorrectly
formatted.
Fix: Date change was processed completely
wrong in logging.
Fix: DebugFlag of 1 incorrectly logged
the entered passwords.
New: Using undocumented "soabort" API
call to kill bad sockets.
Mod: Error logging to "ips.log" improved.
New: Optional "ClientStack" parameter
in "ipsgroup.cfg" to manually control memory allocation for client threads.
New: "SITE ADMIN SHUTDOWN" added.
Fix: Sockets not always closed correctly
after a OnConnect rejection.
New: "startips.cmd" checking status if
"ips2upd.exe" before upgrading.
Fix: It was possible to set idle time-out
higher than TimeoutMax with SITE IDLE command.
Mod: Dynamic max file handle implementation
failed sometimes, now set high number at start instead.
Mod: SITE WHO show speed of transfers,
and speed is also logged.
Fix: SITE commands now logged.
Mod: SITE PASS cannot be enabled for Anonymous
or Administrator users.
Mod: SITE IDLE overrides TimeoutMax if
Administrator.
New: Optional "MaxBandwidth" in user files,
this override the one in the service setup.
Mod: Services section in ips.cfg is gone,
IPS searches for sub-directories under the "cfg\" directory for groups
and a group configuration file within the directory with the same name
as the directory itself with ".cfg" at the end. This is it old ipsgroup.cfg
file. Services are setup in these configuration files.
New: SITE LANG [language-id] enable different
response languages, ipsftp.e is renamed to ipsftp for default language.
Mod: Internal layout change to use more
common code for the various services.
Mod: UserDirectory and GroupDirectory
settings moved to the new GLOBAL section in group config file.
Mod: All RXCMD and RXPAR settings moved
from response text file into group configuration file.
New: ACCESS section in user files implemented,
this is always scanned before the ACCESS section in the group config file.
Mod: Default directory "info" file changed
from ".dirinfo" to ".message".
New: "msg" directory introduced as default
placement of multiple-line responses, two example files included as well.
Mod: Format of language files changed.
New: Old log files automatically compressed
and put in history directory. You need zip in your path for this to work.
New: Data connections will be attempted
against default port if no PORT or PASV command are used.
Fix: SITE ADMIN KILL was broken, dunno
when.
Mod: All internal SITE commands can be abbreviated, also commands are
no longer converted to uppercase before sent to scripts.
Mod: Uncontrolled shutdown refused and logged.
1998/03/09 15:00 InetPowerServer v0.65
What's new:
Fix: A lot of minor (and some major)
bugs in the Idle and Stability Monitor code fixed thanks to help by Zadig-
on IRC.
New: SITE PASS [password] and userfile/[USER].ChangePassword=[0|1]
Fix: Many small bugs fixed.
Mod: Log file format changed.
Mod: Distribute .ZIP includes a lower level "ips2" directory.
1998/02/28 18:30 InetPowerServer v0.60Beta2
What's new:
Fix: "startips.cmd" did not work as
expected.
Fix: Not showing multiple-line responses.
Fix: Connections rejected by OnCONNECT
not terminated correctly.
Mod: "bin\password.exe" can now be used
in two modes: "password [password]" or "password [old] [oldcrypted] [new]".
Mod: Multiline response setting in "cfg\ipsftp.e"
can now take "*.cmd" files and run them as RexxHooks as well. These are
then called with only two parameters, socket and response_id. They can
return a filename to display.
Fix: HideIfNoAccess flag in "cfg\ipsgroup.cfg"
did not work correctly.
New: "bin\ch*" utils refreshed, and ls
port added.
Fix: Not implemented ftp commands returned
a "Server error ..." response.
Mod: Stability monitor changed to be nicer.
New: Icon's, setup.cmd script and some other improvements.
1998/02/18 00:10 InetPowerServer v0.60Beta
What's new:
Fix: Normal logout finally fixed.
New: SITE ADMIN MONITOR [idle] command.
Fix: PASV response returned wrong address
on multiple-homed sites.
New: Runtime errors written to main
log file for better error detection.
New: %_ftp.usr.anon%, %_ftp.usr.admin%
variables.
New: Included new OnSITE and OnCONNECT
example script.
New: %_ftp.cmdsock.prev%, %_ftp.cmdsock.next%
variables.
New: RexxHook functions added: ipsLog(
socket, str ), ipsVar( socket, str ), ipsSay( socket, str ).
Mod: All RexxHooks changed, check your
config against new examples.
New: Passwords encrypted, use bin\password.exe
to generate passwords for the user files.
New: First ExtendedAccess flags implemented.
Mod: cfg/* tree moved to doc/cfg/* in distribution archive to avoid
users overwriting their configuration. Also, bin/ips2.exe is now distributed
as bin/ips2upd.exe which will allow you to unpack this and further releases
directly and upgrade by just doing a SITE ADMIN RESTART.
New: %_ftp.configfile%, %_ftp.configsection% variables.
1998/02/08 22:30 InetPowerServer v0.58Beta
What's new:
New: SITE WHO command (this was in the
previous beta also).
Mod: Console debug toggle moved from
D to Alt+D.
Fix: One more bug in my socket toolbox.
Fix: Wrong response on unknown user
login.
New: Stability monitor checked by other
threads, if it blocks of more than 15 minutes IPS/2 will restart. This
give IPS/2 two way stability monitoring.
New: Multiple drives feature completed,
will now list active drive-letters as directories. I was thinking of implementing
this as volume labels, but that was too much work. Drive A: and B: are
not scanned or listed.
Fix: Timing error in bandwidth limited.
New: Changed code to use my Timer tool-kit
which support timing over longer periods.
Mod: _ftp.sent, _ftp.sentkb, _ftp.recv
and _ftp.recvkb variables are for current session.
New: _ftp.usr.sent, _ftp.usr.sentkb, _ftp.usr.recv
and _ftp.usr.recvkb vaiables added.
Mod: EAs support disabled for TVFS drives,
please let me know if a TVFS upgrade with better support for EAs comes
aloong.
New: SITE ADMIN KILL [socket] and SITE
ADMIN RESTART commands.
Mod: Most log stamps and command responses
rewritten. This also include more accurate responses.
Mod: Characters higher than decimal 127
accepted at end of commands.
New: XCUP, XCWD, XMKD, XPWD and XRMD command
finally accepted.
New: Simple HELP command implemented.
New: MODE command implemented, only Stream mode supported.
New: _ftp.curpath variable.
1998/01/28 21:30 InetPowerServer v0.53Beta
What's new:
New: REXX hooks. The following hooks
are defined: OnConnect, OnUser, OnSite, OnRetr, OnStor and OnPass (for
anonymous login only). Please check your "ipsftp.e" file.
New: Counting sub-directories for LIST
output.
New: FTP configuration variable "HideIfNoAccess"
can be set to 0 or 1. If set to 1 nothing without access will be shown
on LIST or NLST output, however this setting do slow down these commands
and are not recommended on busy sites.
Fix: RETR and STOR incorrectly returned
a 550 message instead of a 450 message.
New: Added work-around for TVFS bugs
with EAs and disk identification. This may not work 100%.
New: Bandwidth limiting implemented.
Check "ipsgroup.cfg". This feature will limit the transfer speed of files
sent _to_ users only.
Fix: LogFlag not honored by some commands.
Fix: Incorrect receive and send flags used on some machines.
Still missing:
HTTP, SMTP and POP3 protocols.
1998/01/26 20:30 InetPowerServer v0.51Beta
What's new:
Fixed bug: Connection closed just after
connect.
Fixed bug: Strange access, was displayed
correctly by ls, but not reported correct to other functions.
ftpcmd.txt list what access needed for
what command.
Cleaned access system for all reported
bugs and some, it actually was a lot of them
Better configuration example included.
Finally got path masks in the [ACCESS] section right.
Still missing:
1998/01/25 22:20 InetPowerServer v0.50Beta
What's new:
Minor misspellings at various locations,
please find more of them.
Added console "debug" routines, press
D to toggle.
Added SITE IDLE command.
Fixed missing parameter in log stamp
from TYPE command.
Added RNFR and RNTO rename commands.
Added WelcomeFile variable in ipsgroup.cfg.
USER and PASS command give error message if already logged in.
Looking up hostname for log file. (I had forgot about this)
Still missing:
1998/01/24 04:00 InetPowerServer v0.50Beta
What's new:
Fixed "" user response on non existing
user.
Written better readme file.
Changed files in doc/ to .html.
I had messed up the bits in the rwx
accessed, now fixed.
Implemented EA support. It is now possible to set rights using ch* style
UNIX utilities.
Last memory leak in ftp client object fixed, current memory leakage
is 0 bytes. :)
Still missing:
Rename commands.
SITE commands.
1998/01/23 17:40 InetPowerServer v0.50Betag
What's new:
Some semi multiple-disk feature implemented.
You will be able to set the standard RootDirectory empty and change between
/d, /e etc. but you will not be able to change to /. This could confuse
some ftp clients.
Idle time-out activated, added Timeout
variable in ipsgroup.cfg.
Added logging to all completed ftp functions.
Fixed the memory leak in the previous
release, this was not done for debug purposes at first.
Fixed/improved various small code segments.
Fixed %% in SYST response.
Passive mode activated.
Still missing:
Rename commands.
SITE commands.
1998/01/22 17:00 InetPowerServer v0.50Betaf
What's new:
Fixed some bugs from previous preview release.
Most commands activated.
Still missing:
Passive mode.
Rename commands.
Some logging.
1998/01/21 21:20 InetPowerServer v0.50Betae